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=<userA>,
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 at 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 = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
root at guyana:~#
========
My mailbox location setting is as follows:
======== cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location
# 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.
========
I am wondering how best to work around this Dovecot problem. Please help.
Regards
Jason.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:44 +0200, Jason X, Maney <jsxmoney at gmail.com> 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=<userA>, > 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
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/userAAs it says.> Yet my config also come out strangely as below: > > ========> root at 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 = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem > ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem > userdb { > driver = passwd > } > root at 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_locationLook at /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file. Do you see !include conf.d/*.conf in there? Probably not, so those files aren't being read.