[Dovecot] Problem with default_mail_env in beta9

[Andreas Schulze]

On Mon, Jun 19, Andreas Schulze wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:00 +0200, Andreas Schulze wrote:
> > > I have all users in ldap.
> > > there is an attribute "mailMessageStore" which contains a relative path to users maildir
> > > mailMessageStore: sca/
> > > 
> > > my mailer completes this relative pathinformation to /var/mail/sca/
> > > 
> > > therefor I setup default_mail_env to "maildir:/var/mail/%h"
> > > dovecot-ldap.conf includes "user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid"
> > ..
> > > dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Error: POP3(sca): dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Fatal: chdir(sca/) failed with uid 30014: Permission denied
> > 
> > Dovecot tries to chdir() to the home directory before starting up the
> > pop3 process, and since the default startup directory
> > is /var/run/dovecot, it tried to chdir() under it. I've no idea why it
> > happened to be working for you with beta7. Maybe I added some extra
> > check which broke it for you.
> > 
> > One easy way to fix this would be to just comment out the chdir() call
> > from src/master/mail-process.c. The proper way would be to make the home
> > directory be an absolute path.
> this hack works for me ...
My problem where relative paths in mailmessagestore
Dovecot works fine without the hack, if I chdir to /var/mail _before_ starting dovecot ...

> > 
> > Perhaps the LDAP code needs a bit more changing so that you can use the
> > values received from LDAP in a template for Dovecot's settings.
> > Something like:
> > 
> > user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home=/var/mail/%1,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid
> > 
> > BTW. This would break that other guy's quota configuration who I just
> > recently replied to that I wouldn't be breaking it.. :)
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Schulze
> 
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Andreas Schulze

DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg
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 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892
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