Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:28 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
Jun 16 08:22:07 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: user cmcmanis:
Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting
failed: mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /home/cmcmanis/Mailbox (
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox)
..
Now it strikes me that this message indicates that Dovecot is confused about
how mail is delivered on my system and is looking for a Maildir
implementation when I"m using single files.
No, it's looking for a directory containing mbox files. See the wiki URL
and "Only /var/mail/ mboxes" section in it.
One wonders if Chuck's stated requirement may be reasonably served by
something like this:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/Mailbox
and create a directory "mail" in each user's home directory.
This should then make Dovecot consider each user's INBOX to be an
mbox-format file at "~/Mailbox", and also allows Dovecot to keep indexes
in the directory "~/mail", thereby enabling Chuck's users to take
advantage of Dovecot's indexing functionality.
Bill
