[Dovecot] not creating homedirs when using maildir format

[Ben Halicki]

"Ben Halicki" <ben.halicki at macquarietextiles.com.au> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's not
> creating home directories if they don't already exist.
>
> I have the following line in dovecot.conf:
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so
> creating directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't be
> a problem. If I instruct dovecot to use mbox format, directories are
> created without a problem.  The problem only seems to exist with maildir.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Never done this, ISTR there is a PAM module that is supposed to do this
(create the directory). It would require you to use PAM, obviously.

-- 
Matthias Andree
Thanks for the reply Matthias.  Only problem with PAM and pam_mkhomedir, is 
that Dovecot doesn't seem to open a session, so pam isn't called and 
pam_mkhomedir doesn't get the chanceto create a home directory.  I can't 
understand why this works with mbox, but not withmaildir!Thanks again,Ben 
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