On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I look at > the logs. From there it didn't take long to figure out that something > had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this > configuration line to work: > > mail_location: ~/Maildir > > and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix "maildir"" > > With this everything seems to be fixed. > > I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The > Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me that the > rules for mail_location had changed.
The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir: prefix, Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really know.
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