[Dovecot] LMTP & home, chroot, mail userdb fields.

[Per Jessen]

Lev Serebryakov wrote:

> Hello, Per.
> You wrote 20 января 2011 г., 21:28:11:
> 
>>>>> chroot: "/usr/home/hosted/v-mail/%d/%n"
>>>>> home: "/"
>>>>> mail: "maildir:."
>>> Then IMAP4/POP3 processes will do chroot to
>>> "/usr/home/hosted/v-mail/domain/user" and will try to find
>>> "maildir:/usr/home/hosted/v-mail/domain/user" RELATIVE to chroot.
>>> Mail will be delivered, but can not be acessed.
>> Okay, I see how you've set it up now.  Any chance that lmtp is having
>> problems with chroot()ing ?
>
>   I don't think, that lmtp needs "real" chroot at all (it can degrade
> performance and spoil whole idea of long-living delivery process),
> but, IMHO, lmtp should calculate full path from all three components
> -- chroot + home + maildir. And it seems, that lmtp doesn't use chroot
> variable at all.

Yes, that is what it looks like. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich