On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 21:47 -0400, Alex wrote: > I'm still trying to troubleshoot my problem with dovecot-2.0.11 and > creating "mail/mail" directories for a reason unknown to me, so I > enabled mail_debug. It's now printing this: > > May 15 21:39:33 mail dovecot: imap(gdadmin): Debug: Namespace : Using > permissions from /home/gdadmin/mail: mode=0755 gid=-1 > May 15 21:39:33 mail dovecot: imap(gdadmin): Debug: Namespace : > Permission lookup failed from /home/gdadmin/mail/mail/INBOX. > Trash > > That file (INBOX.Trash) does exist at that location and is readable. > It prints that line three times for each of INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Trash, > and INBOX.Drafts. > > Also notice that it is creating /home/user/mail/mail. My mail_location > is set to "mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u", so I'm really > confused.
Your client probably has set a "mail/" namespace prefix. Either remove that or add a namespace to make both work: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces Also I don't understand why you would have stuff like INBOX.Sent. Usually it would be called just "Sent", i.e. /home/gdadmin/mail/Sent.
