[Dovecot] Arghh, dovecot-2 and lda

[Brandon Lamb]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>> On 18.7.2010, at 19.57, Brandon Lamb wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2010-07-18 11:51:08 1OaYOJ-0003Vn-2P == brandon at olypen.com
>>>> R=router_pop T=dovecot_deliver defer (2): No such file or directory:
>>>> failed to chdir to maildir:~/maildir:INDEX=~/maildir/dovecot-index
>>> ..
>>>> command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ -e -k -f "$sender_address" -d
>>>> "$local_part@$domain" -m "$acl_m1"
>>>
>>> Why are you giving -k parameter?
>>
>> I dont remember, its something I had entered at some point long ago,
>> i'll remove it
>>
>>>> I am returning a home and mail with userdb, the directory does exist,
>>>> owned by mail.mail... Im stumped
>>>
>>> It looks like you're returning "maildir:~/maildir:INDEX=~/maildir/dovecot-index" as the home directory.
>>
>> I know that was my thought too! But below are the fields in mysql, and
>> there are also no logs being entered to give me hints at what might be
>> wrong. It isnt logging to debug, but it DOES if I run the dovecot-lda
>> from the command line??
>>
>> home: /mail/mail2/b/olypen.com/brandon
>> maildir: maildir:~/maildir:INDEX=~/maildir/dovecot-index
>>
>> and dovecot-sql.conf-ext
>> # Password query
>> password_query = SELECT 8 AS userdb_uid, \
>> 8 AS userdb_gid, \
>> password, \
>> CONCAT(username, '@', domain) AS user, \
>> mail_pop.home AS userdb_home, \
>> mail_pop.maildir AS userdb_mail, \
>> CONCAT('*:storage=', quota, 'M') AS quota_rule, \
>> '~/dovecot.sieve' AS userdb_sieve \
>> FROM `auth` LEFT JOIN (mail_pop) ON (mail_pop.user_id = auth.user_id)
>> WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND mail_pop.status =
>> 'enabled' LIMIT 1
>>
>> # User query
>> user_query = SELECT mail_pop.home AS home, \
>> mail_pop.maildir AS mail, \
>> 8 AS uid, \
>> 8 AS gid, \
>> CONCAT('*:storage=', quota, 'M') AS quota_rule, \
>> '~/dovecot.sieve' AS sieve \
>> FROM `auth` LEFT JOIN (mail_pop) ON (mail_pop.user_id = auth.user_id)
>> WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND mail_pop.status =
>> 'enabled' LIMIT 1
>>
>> And the directory:
>> server:/mail/mail2/b/olypen.com/brandon# ls -al
>> total 8
>> drwxrwx---  4 mail mail   32 Jul 18 00:54 .
>> drwxrwx---  3 mail mail   20 Jul 18 00:53 ..
>> drwxrwx--- 27 mail mail 4096 Jul 18 11:22 maildir
>> drwx-w----  4 mail mail 4096 Jul 18 01:20 mdbox
>
> I also just now tried changing the maildir field to absolute paths and
> now I still get :
>
> No such file or directory: failed to chdir to
> maildir:/mail/mail2/b/olypen.com/brandon/maildir:INDEX=/mail/mail2/b/olypen.com/brandon/maildir/dovecot-index
>
> And still nothing in dovecot's logs showing that exim even talked to it..
>

Curious, I just changed the maildir field to
/mail/mail2/b/olypen.com/brandon/Maildir and now it delivered,
curious!

Its like it didnt understand the mailbox type or something?