[Dovecot] lmtp logging incomplete (does not tell what mailbox mail is actually being saved to!)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 21 08:29:43 EET 2011


On 21.12.2011, at 6.09, Gary Chodos wrote:

> We created a new virtual domain and created a user in that domain in
> our pgsql database.  Instead of creating any directory structure in
> /home/virtual/mail/<domain>/<user>, I just sent a test email to see if
> dovecot's lmtp would autocreate.  And it did!  And mail appears to be
> delivered to an inbox.. but, logging is weird and I'm not sure
> everything is working as it should because:
> 
> Dec 20 23:01:28 mx dovecot: lmtp(21458, user at example.com):
> lUDFG8tZ8U7SUwAAO3tENA:
> msgid=<20111221040122.GP13367 at hostname.example.org>: saved mail to
> 
> . so why doesn't dovecot log where mail is stored/saved?

That's a bug. Fixed by http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/6d188f4e8e6a

The empty string anyway means INBOX.


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