[Dovecot] Mail error in log

[Ian macdonald]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> On 2010-08-31 10:30 AM, Ian macdonald <ianmac51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using Maildir and julie does have access  to ~Maildir, is there
>> any reason why deliver is attempting to use her user directory and not
>> her Maildir?
>
> Did you assign her a 'home' directory?
>
> What version of dovecot? dovecot -n output?
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>
Hi,

Yes she has a home directory sorry not being clear, all mail users
have a home of the format /home/user and mail is in /home/user/Maildir
it is her home directory that is owned by root

dovecot -n below

cheers

Ian



# OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext3
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imaps pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-dove.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-dove.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl
mail_plugins(imap): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl
mail_plugins(pop3):
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  inbox: yes
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: shared
  separator: /
  prefix: shared/%%u/
  location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
  list: yes
lda:
  postmaster_address: ianmac51 at gmail.com
  mail_plugins: acl
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: postfix
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 384
plugin:
  deleted_to_trash_folder: Trash
  acl: vfile
  acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db