[Dovecot] when the user has no home directory

[Dave Yost]

At 10:29 AM -0700 2011-05-10, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>On 11:59 AM, Dave Yost wrote:
>> A user on our server for some reason didn't have a home directory. As a
>> result, the pop3 server was complaining. Apple's Mail app reported that
>> the server said:
>>
>>   The attempt to send data to the server "(null)" failed.
>
>Mail is sent via SMTP, not POP3.

Yes. I know. That error message was reported by Mail as a result of trying to connect to the POP3 server.

>A client MUA delivers mail to a server
>via SMTP and presumably it is the MTA on the server, not Dovecot, that
>issued whatever failure resulted in the above.
>
>It is possible that Dovecot is involved, e.g. in processing SASL
>authentication, but Apple Mail would have been talking to the MTA on the
>server.
>
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