[Dovecot] Dovecot as LDA issues - please help

Placid Publishing, LLC peter at placidpublishing.net
Thu Sep 20 23:55:47 EEST 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 23:12 -0500, Placid Publishing, LLC wrote:
>   
>> The error I get when running /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c 
>> dovecot.conf -d username
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected 
>> to localhost (db)
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus deliver(support): auth input: support
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus deliver(support): auth input: uid=1011
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus deliver(support): auth input: gid=1011
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus deliver(support): chdir(/root) failed: 
>> Permission denied
>>     
>
> This probably happens because you have "HOME=/root" environment set
> while running deliver. v1.1's deliver clears the whole environment so
> this isn't a problem, but for now either unset it yourself, or add
> "home=/" (or something) to plugin {}.
>
> Anyway this error message isn't fatal.
>
>   
Ok, what exactly should home be? I dont have home directories for my 
virtual users, no need for them.
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus deliver(support): maildir: 
>> data=/usr/local/virtual//support
>> Sep 19 22:55:57 pelorus deliver(support): maildir: 
>> root=/usr/local/virtual//support, index=/usr/local/virtual//support, 
>> control=, inbox=
>>     
>
> So the messages stop here? There should have been something more..
>   

Yes that was it, what else should there be and why isn't it there?
>   
>> *Sep 19 22:57:14 pelorus dspam[33675]: Delivery agent returned exit code 
>> 67: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d user at domain.com*
>>     
>
> 67 means "unknown user". I think this is different from the previous
> error. You could set auth_verbose=yes to make Dovecot log the user.
>   
ok, should it be user at domain.com or just user? I will turn verbose on.


Thanks for your reply, I'm very eager to get this working!


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