[Dovecot] RESOLVED: dovecot-imap displays empty domainalias mailboxen

[Kacper Wysocki]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kacper Wysocki <kacperw at online.no> wrote:
> I'm using dovecot 1.0.13 as the IMAPS frontend for a vpopmail/qmail
> virtual domain setup. Dovecot is set up as follows:
> passdb vpopmail{
> }
> userdb vpopmail{
> }
>
> I've added a domain alias for the main domain with vaddaliasdomain and
> email to post at aliasdomain is delivered to post at maindomain and can be
> checked with pop.
>
> However, when I try to check IMAP through the account post at aliasdomain
> I am confronted with an empty mailbox. If I log in using
> post at maindomain I get the expected contents.
>
> Why can't my users log in using user at aliasdomain to check their emails?

Update: dovecot can't find the mail directory because of
mail_location = maildir:/var/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
and dovecot doesn't know anything about domain aliases.
ln -s ~vpopmail/domains/maindomain ~vpopmail/domains/aliasdomain
fixes the problem for dovecot.

-K