On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:38 +0200, Jason X, Maney wrote: > Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla: > Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail > storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA
As it says. > Yet my config also come out strangely as below: > > ========= > root@guyana:~# dovecot -n > # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 > passdb { > driver = pam > } > protocols = " imap pop3" > ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem > ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem > userdb { > driver = passwd > } > root@guyana:~# > ========= There is no mail_location above. This is the configuration Dovecot sees. > My mailbox location setting is as follows: > > ========= > cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location Look at /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file. Do you see !include conf.d/*.conf in there? Probably not, so those files aren't being read.