[Dovecot] Error on mailbox file

[augustocasagrande at gmail.com]

The correct directory is /home/user/mail/

My dovecot -n :

# 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.16.13-4-smp i686 SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586)
protocols: imap
listen: my-ip
ssl: no
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
lda:
postmaster_address: postmaster at example.com
mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd

Recently i have made this change in the conf file :

mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock

Thanks !

El 01/10/2010 13:29, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> escribió:
> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 14:26 +0000, augustocasagrande at gmail.com wrote:



> > Sep 29 08:25:07 host1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=,

> > method=PLAIN, rip=172.20.22.12, lip=172.20.22.14

> > Sep 29 08:25:07 host1 dovecot: IMAP(user): mail_location: mbox:

> > mkdir(/home/NT-DOMAIN/user/mail) failed: Permission denied

> > (euid=10188(user) egid=10001(domain users) missing +w perm: /home)

> > Sep 29 08:25:07 host1 dovecot: IMAP(user): Fatal: Namespace  
> initialization

> > failed

> >

> > Here , i assume the user put his user name in CAPS (USER), and that i

> > generating an error. Then Dovecot tries to create the directory

> > /home/NT-DOMAIN/user/mail.



> So what would have been the correct directory for this user?



> If the problem is caps, you can try if auth_username_format=%Lu helps.

> If not, send full dovecot -n output.