[Reversing the top-posting] On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Wendell Turner wrote:
[...] The trailing '/' means mbox format, correct?
No. The trailing '/' means maildir format. (The '/' makes the path look like a directory.)
However, I solved my own problem, but I don't know why. Enlightenment would be appreciated. [...] Q: why did commenting out the mail_location line make pop3 retrieval of the virtual host mailboxes work correctly?
Commenting out the mail_location line made dovecot fall back to the default locations. See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
Best, Ben