[Dovecot] Basic configuration problem "not a directory"

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Apr 26 12:10:27 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 10:46 +0200, Einar Flesaker wrote:
> Your theory was right. Removing references to a shell at all did the 
> trick, actually:
> 
> einar at domain.com::513:513:/var/spool/vmail/domain.com/:::

The format of passwd is:

user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):flags:mail

You're missing the gecos field. Just add extra ':' between 513 and home
dir.

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