Dovecot is looking for .dovecot.lda-dupes in the wrong place

[Michael]

Quoting Alex JOST <jost+lists at dimejo.at>:

> Am 02.09.2014 um 15:59 schrieb Michael:
>> Hi,
>> I just moved the dovecot maildir location for all virtual users to
>> another location.
>> I moved everything from
>> /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
>> to
>> /var/vmail/%d/%n/maildir
>>
>> Everything seem to be fine except of one recurring error:
>>
>> Sep  2 10:16:09 mx0 dovecot: lmtp(13226, sv_bogies at neurohr.at): Error:
>> file_dotlock_open(/var/mail/vhosts/domain.at/michael/.dovecot.lda-dupes)
>> failed: No such file or directory
>> Sep  2 13:31:27 mx0 dovecot: lmtp(16248, sv_bogies at neurohr.at): Error:
>> file_dotlock_open(/var/mail/vhosts/domain.at/michael/.dovecot.lda-dupes)
>> failed: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> So Dovecot is looking in the old path. How can I fix that?
>
>> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/maildir
>> passdb {
>>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>>   driver = sql
>> }
>> userdb {
>>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>>   driver = sql
>
> Check the SQL query if it is overwriting your configuration.

Exactly that was the case. Thanks for your help.

Michael