On 16.3.2012, at 17.57, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> imaptest host=localhost user=testuser pass=testpass >> >> Maybe I should set up a FreeBSD VM to try this myself. Or if anyone else >> can report that they can reproduce this problem that would be helpful.. >> > Must I edit src/settings.h to reflect my #define MBOX_PATH value? I think I > had to do that, but things don't appear good at all.
No, you can also specify it as mbox=path parameter. > [root@jaribu] ~wash/Tools/Dovecot/2.1/imaptest-20120129# ./src/imaptest > host=localhost user=w...@kictanet.or.ke pass=XXX > Fatal: Empty mbox file: /var/spool/virtual/kictanet.or.ke/wash/mdbox But don't point the mbox there! You'll need to download http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-crlf file and point the mbox to that. It's used to upload mails.