Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:38 +0200, Jason X, Maney wrote:
> Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla:
> Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail
> storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA

As it says.

> Yet my config also come out strangely as below:
> 
> =
> root@guyana:~# dovecot -n
> # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> protocols = " imap pop3"
> ssl_cert =  ssl_key =  userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> root@guyana:~#
> =

There is no mail_location above. This is the configuration Dovecot sees.

> My mailbox location setting is as follows:
> 
> =
>  cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location

Look at /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file. Do you see !include
conf.d/*.conf in there? Probably not, so those files aren't being read.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox

[IVO GELOV (CRM)]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:44 +0200, Jason X, Maney  wrote:


Dear all,

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my
Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location
has failed as follows:

=
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=,
method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla:
Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail
storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user
settings. Refer to server log for more information.
=

Yet my config also come out strangely as below:

# path given in the mail_location setting.
#   mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
#   mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
#   mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
# explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace
  # mail_location, which is also the default for it.


Hi, Jason.

I will describe my configuration and probably you will find some usefull 
information.
I am using Postfix as MTA and have configured Dovecot to be LDA. I have several 
domains,
so I am using the following folder schema:

/var/mail/vhosts = the root of the mail storage
/var/mail/vhosts/domain_1 = first domain
/var/mail/vhosts/domain_1/user_1 = first mailbox in this domain

/var/mail/vhosts/domain_2 = another domain
/var/mail/vhosts/domain_2/user_1 = first mailbox in the other domain

This is achieved with the following setting in mail.conf:

mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n

But since I do not want to manually go and create the corresponding folders 
each time
I add new user (I manage accounts through a MySQL table), I also use the 
following
setting in lda.conf:

lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes

Perhaps you only need to add the latter settings in lda.conf and everything 
should run fine.

Best wishes,
IVO GELOV

[Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox

[Jason X, Maney]

Dear all,

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my
Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location
has failed as follows:

=
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=,
method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla:
Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail
storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user
settings. Refer to server log for more information.
=

Yet my config also come out strangely as below:

=
root@guyana:~# dovecot -n
# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
protocols = " imap pop3"
ssl_cert =