With IMAP the users must have a mail directory. So you should create home directories for the users. Also see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:12 -0500, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez wrote: > There are no home directory for those users, I think I should start with > that information. > > Regards. > > On 5/15/12 9:06 AM, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez wrote: > > Thanks I did it that way and it still download all the mboxes :( but > > only with imail. > > > > You cant see those emails but you still can see the mboxes. > > > > Regards. > > > > On 5/15/12 8:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> You shouldn't have removed the "mail_location = " part. > >> > >> On 15.5.2012, at 16.41, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks for your advice, I tried changing the configuration but I got > >>> the following error: > >>> > >>> /conf.d/10-mail.conf line 31: Unknown setting: mbox:~/mail:INBOX > >>> > >>> Is there anything else I can do? > >>> > >>> Regards. > >>> > >>> Alfonso. > >>> > >>> On 5/14/12 10:56 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >>>> On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 08:29 -0500, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u > >>>> This just isn't going to work. You're now specifying that all of the > >>>> users' folders are in a common /var/spool/mail directory. You need to > >>>> figure out something else. Common configs are e.g.: > >>>> > >>>> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u > >>>> > >>>> or: > >>>> > >>>> mail_location = > >>>> mbox:/var/spool/mail-folders/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > > > > >
