On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 02:04 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
In another email I can't find at the moment you suggested that I
look at
the logs. From there it didn't take long to figure out that
something
had changed with update of Dovecot that no longer allowed this
configuration line to work:
mail_location: ~/Maildir
and both in dovecot.conf and log I was warned to add the prefix
"maildir""
With this everything seems to be fixed.
I don't know whether this would be considered any kind of bug. The
Debian package allowed me to upgrade Dovecot without warning me
that the
rules for mail_location had changed.
The rules haven't really changed. If you don't add the maildir:
prefix,
Dovecot tries to detect automatically if it's mbox or maildir. With
Maildir the detection is done by checking if ~/Maildir/cur/ directory
exists. It does this with v1.1, v1.0.15 and I'm pretty sure also with
older v1.0 versions. So why it broke with the upgrade, I don't really
know.
Ok. Thanks! I've got my situation fixed rather painlessly.
I may follow it up on the Debian lists just in case someone else has
had a similar problem.
Paul
