[Dovecot] Help with logging in and getting mail

[Andrew Falanga]

On Saturday 29 December 2007 14:20:47 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:00 -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> > mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> ..
>
> >   userdb:
> >     driver: sql
> >     args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>
> ..
>
> > Dec 29 15:01:54 whitbap dovecot: POP3(jdunkin):
> > mkdir_parents(/var/mail/vmail//mail) failed: Not a directory
>
> Your SQL lookup returns "/var/mail/vmail/" as the user's home directory.
> You'll need to have a proper per-user directory as their home. For
> example have the user_query return '/home/virtual/%u' as home. See
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs

Ok, I'm beginning to grasp this.  However, my understanding is still 
incomplete somehow.  The changes I've made thus far are:

1) now, all virtual users have a "home" directory in /virtusers/%u
2) home field in the PostgreSQL database says, /virtusers/<userid>

The errors as before are no longer being shown.  However, as I stated before, 
I have sendmail configured with aliases to "map" a virtual users, such as 
jdunkin, to the system user vmail.  This user is getting all the mail for the 
aliases (virtual user accounts).  How do I get the mail to each virtual user?

>
> Also setting auth_debug=yes and mail_debug=yes may be helpful when
> figuring out why things don't work right.

Thank you for the help with this.  I didn't know about the debug things.

Andy