Bloody Dovecot Error Solved

I added an email account to my email server recently. No problem.

My mail set-up is Arch Linux, Postfix and Dovecot. Thunderbird as a client using Imap.

The problem was, I was getting the following error:

Error: user newuser: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/newUser

Feck!!!

The google machine didn't help.

It took a while, but the solution was to edit the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf

Add the line:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

and restart dovecot. Problem solved.