On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:41 +0200, Andreas Hübner wrote: > After upgrading dovecot from 1.0.x to 1.2.x, the automatic creation of new > mailboxes fails with: > > dovecot: deliver([email protected]): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: > Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/mail/xx.de/xxx > dovecot: deliver([email protected]): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed > > Ubuntu had the same problem [1][2] and sort of fixed it by deleting a > check in mbox-storage.c.
So what Ubuntu did was assume that all new users want to use mbox, not Maildir. Doesn't seem like a great idea to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

