dovecot - Jul 2005 - Failed to create storage with data - possible reasons?

Hi 
I'm getting this error with my attempt at setting up dovecot for virtual
mail accounts:

Failed to create storage with data: /home/vhostpath/usersname/Maildir/

I cant establish any cause. I dont think its permissions as it was
saying 'Permission denied' till I fixed that and the UID and GID are
those of the directories owner. I was prompted bythe log files to set
the minimum and maximum uid range, which made the prompt go away, but I
still have this problem.

Can anyone tell me what else might cause this error?

Thanks
glenn

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:15 +1000, vmstech wrote:
> Hi 
> I'm getting this error with my attempt at setting up dovecot for
virtual
> mail accounts:
> 
> Failed to create storage with data: /home/vhostpath/usersname/Maildir/
> 
> I cant establish any cause. I dont think its permissions as it was
> saying 'Permission denied' till I fixed that and the UID and GID
are
> those of the directories owner. I was prompted bythe log files to set
> the minimum and maximum uid range, which made the prompt go away, but I
> still have this problem.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what else might cause this error?
Put "maildir:" before the path (probably to default_mail_env), so
Dovecot knows that you want it to be maildir.
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> Put "maildir:" before the path (probably to default_mail_env), so
> Dovecot knows that you want it to be maildir.
Thanks Timo - I found that manually creating the maildir hireachy, or
getting exim4 to do it relieved the problem, but nice to know there is a
solution. thx again
Glenn