Hello! Email is stored as plain textfile in /var/mail/andreas. I assume this is mbox-format. I get the following in the log telneting to localhost: 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: chdir(/var/spool/mail/andreas) failed: Not a directory 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/spool/mail/andreas 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Info: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/spool/mail/andreas in=0 out=372 In case in the passwd-file I specify userdb_mail=mbox:/var/mail/andreas:INBOX=/var/mail/%n I see: 2020-03-22 20:31:00 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: chdir(/var/spool/mail/andreas) failed: Not a directory 2020-03-22 20:31:00 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: Namespace '': mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /var/mail/andreas (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox) How can I make this work? Regards Andreas
> On 22 Mar 2020, at 21.46, ratatouille <ratatouille at bitclusive.de> wrote: > > Hello! > > Email is stored as plain textfile in /var/mail/andreas. I assume this is mbox-format. > > I get the following in the log telneting to localhost: > > 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: chdir(/var/spool/mail/andreas) failed: Not a directory > 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/spool/mail/andreas > 2020-03-22 20:21:10 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Info: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/var/spool/mail/andreas in=0 out=372 > > In case in the passwd-file I specify userdb_mail=mbox:/var/mail/andreas:INBOX=/var/mail/%n I see:This will not work. Please point mail to somewhere else. like: userdb_mail=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%n Sami