Hi all, I have a dovecot v2.2.7 installation, and I would like dovecot to autocreate the Maildir mailbox when those mailboxes don't exist. Following the instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings have had no effect, the errors below are reported.
As soon as I create the Maildir manually with maildirmake fetching mail starts working fine, so all of the messages about the directory being ambiguous seem to be a red herring. Anyone know how to turn this on? Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: mail=/home/vmail/[email protected]/ Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: Effective uid=517, gid=517, home= Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=/home/vmail/[email protected]/ Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: mdbox autodetect: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/storage) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: sdbox autodetect: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/mailboxes) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: maildir autodetect: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/cur) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/.imap) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/inbox) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/mbox) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Debug: sdbox autodetect: stat(/home/vmail/[email protected]/mailboxes) failed: No such file or directory Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Error: user [email protected]: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/vmail/[email protected]/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) Mar 11 16:02:37 monica dovecot: imap([email protected]): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Regards, Graham --
