[Dovecot] more transitional joys

[Eric S. Johansson]

well, now that I have moved to dovecot, I'm not getting any spam... in fact, I'm 
not getting e-mail at all.

default_mail_env =mbox:~/IMap2/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission problems:

Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) failed: 
Permission denied
Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file 
/var/spool/mail/esj: Permission denied

so I changed permissions on /var/spool/mail to 777 as a temporary work around. 
no luck.  It tells me that I have no e-mail in my inbox... fat chance

[root at harvee mail]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/esj
-rw-------    1 esj      mail       167772 Aug 14 18:05 /var/spool/mail/esj

what simply obvious thing I am I missing now?

---eric