[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 rc4, expire, sqlite

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 18:02 +0200, Burckhard Schmidt wrote:

> If I copy a message (with TB) into that folder, I get an error if there 
> exists no entry for that user and that folder within the database:
> 
>   dict: Error: sqlite: exec(INSERT INTO expires 
> (expire_stamp,username,mailbox) VALUES 
> ('1281016832','userx','AutoCleanSpam')) failed: unable to open database 
> file (14)
> dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed:
> 
> If I make an initial entry manually first no error occurs.

You have to create the row for each user?..

> Anymore there is a problem concerning acl of the base directory of the 
> expires.db:
> dict: Error: sqlite: open(/addons/expire/expires.db) failed: unable to 
> open database file
> dict: Error: dict sql lookup failed: out of memory

It looks to me like 3/4 of those error messages are wrong..

> It was necessary to give "other" r-x permissions for directory 
> /addons/expire.

r-x? o+rx?

> I use mail_uid = sysdov and mail_gid = sysdov. That is uid 29.
> Furthermore I work with userdb ldap and uid/gid mapping:
> user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=29,gidNumber=29
> So usually it was sufficient using acl like this
> drwxr-x---   2 sysdov   sysdov         5 Aug  5 16:00 /addons/expire
> 
> As which user expire, dict, sqlite access are running?

dict process runs as $dovecot_internal_user (dovecot) by default. All
accesses to the expiredb are done via dict process, so you should just
make it accessible to dovecot user.