[plug] RoundCube question

[Chris Griffin]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Tim White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/02/10 23:05, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> Chris Griffin<griffinster at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> as a result of a recent post I decided to check out RoundCube Webmail. I
>>> seem to have it "mostly" working but when I am testing via the installer,
>>> the imap test fails.  Checking the maillog shows:
>>>
>>> Aug  2 20:37:14 localhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cgriffin>,
>>> method=PLAIN, rip
>>> =::1, lip=::1, secured
>>> Aug  2 20:37:15 localhost dovecot: IMAP(cgriffin): mail_location not set
>>> and
>>> autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with
>>> home=/home/cgriffin
>>> Aug  2 20:37:15 localhost dovecot: IMAP(cgriffin): Fatal: Namespace
>>> initialization
>>> failed
>>>
>>> Can someone please advise me as to what is wrong?
>>>
>>>
>> dovecot can't work out where your email should be stored, or what format
>> it is
>> stored in, and you didn't tell it, but left it to guess.
>>
>> Fix that, in dovecot, and your problem will be resolved.
>>
>>
>
> It's recommended that you turn off the auto detection  in dovecot. You do
> this by setting the mail_location stuff. (i.e. mbox in /var/mail/ or Maildir
> in /home/user/Maildir, etc etc). If you leave auto detection on, and a user
> has no mail or mail in a nonstandard location, then it will fail until they
> have some mail.
> You may also want to look at using dovecot for the delivery agent too, this
> way you don't have to worry about exim/postfix/sendmail putting the mail in
> the correct location, and you can use Sieve filtering (which roundcube is
> supposed to have an editor for).
>
> Tim
>
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Thank folks, I have now got it all working.
Again, many thanks.

Chris Griffin
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