[Dovecot] 1.1 master auth not expanding static userdb variables

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Mar 10 06:25:09 EET 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 21:18 -0700, Andrew Roberts wrote:
> >> After upgrading to 1.1_rc2, however, deliver creates a maildir named "%Lu" 
> >> and delivers all mail for all users to it.  
> > 
> > Is the %Lu from home=/var/mailhomes/%Lu user from user=%Lu? Do either of
> > them get expanded correctly? dovecot-auth should already do the %Lu
> > expansion, not deliver/master. Set auth_debug=yes and see what it shows
> > in "Master out" line?
> 
> It looks like dovecot-auth is doing the right thing.
> 
> Mar  9 21:08:17 milne dovecot: auth(default): master in: USER   1 
> aroberts at noom.org     service=deliver
> Mar  9 21:08:17 milne dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER  1 
> aroberts at noom.org     uid=206 gid=206 
> home=/var/mail/mailhome/aroberts at noom.org 
> mail=maildir:/var/mail/aroberts at noom.org

ok, so:

> namespace:
>    type: private
>    separator: .
>    location: maildir:/var/mail/%Lu
>    inbox: yes
>    list: yes
>    subscriptions: yes

Do you mean it creates /var/mail/%Lu directory and changing namespace
location changes this to e.g. /var/mail/test tries to create that
instead of %Lu?

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