[Dovecot] problems getting dovecot-LDA to work

[Björn Ketelaars]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:54:10 +0900, Alan Premselaar <alien at 12inch.com> wrote:
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> Alan Premselaar wrote:
>> I've setup a test machine and have been playing with dovecot-1.0beta7
>> and dovecot-lda in preparation for a migration from 0.99.x series.
>> (hopefully with the ability to support imap-quotas)
>>
>> anyways, i've got it all compiled fine (as far as I can tell) and
>> following the directions on the wiki for setting up dovecot LDA with
>> sendmail. (I've had to alter the configuration a bit since using the
>> mailertable didn't work with my actual hostname).
>>
>> when I try to use /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver via sendmail, i get
>> a EX_TEMPFAIL.  I logged into the machine as the user I'm trying to
>> deliver mail for and do the following:
>>
>> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d alan
>>
>> and get the following error:
>>
>> deliver: Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do
>> with it: /var/spool/mail/alan (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
>> deliver: Fatal: Failed to create storage for 'alan' with mail
>> '/var/spool/mail/alan'
>>
>>
>> in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf I have the following:
>>
>>
>> protocol lda {
>>
>>         postmaster_address = postmaster at pluto.valueclick.ne.jp
>>         auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>>
>>         location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> I tried setting the default_mail_env with the same settings but got the
>> same results (i did a complete restart of the dovecot services)
>>
>> I've even specified the config file with:
>>
>> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf -d
> alan
>>
>> with the same results.
>>
>>
>> Google is not my friend with this problem.  Can anyone point me in the
>> right direction to solve this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> alan
> 
> OK. to reply to my own post, I've made some progress.
> 
> while on my lunch break it occurred to me that I should unset the MAIL
> environment variable when doing the command line test of deliver which
> changed the results.
> 
> if i log in as 'alan' and run the command, i get the following:
> 
> deliver: Error: lstat(/home/alan/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied
> deliver: Panic: i_stream_stat() used for non-blocking seekable stream
> Aborted
> 
> (i hit ^C to cause the panic and abort)
> 
> the permissions are as follows:
> 
> drwxrwx---  2 alan mail  20K Apr 26 14:07 cur
> - -rw-------  1 alan alan  120 Apr 26 16:26 dovecot.index
> - -rw-------  1 alan alan   24 Apr 26 16:26 dovecot.index.log
> - -rw-------  1 alan alan    0 Apr 26 16:45 dovecot-uidlist.lock
> drwxrwx---  2 alan mail 4.0K Apr 26 13:55 new
> - -rwxrwx---  1 alan mail   12 Apr 26 14:09 subscriptions
> drwxrwx

In which mode is dovecot-auth-master (socket listen) running? Does user alan has permission to this socket?



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