LDA ignores virtual mailbox settings

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 28/12/2020 15:06 Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi Tamsy,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:47:54AM +0000, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:52:17AM +0700, Tamsy wrote:
> > > Try this:
> > > 
> > >    mail_home = /path-to-mailboxen/%d/%n
> > >    mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > > namespace inbox {
> > >    separator                 = /
> > >    prefix                    =
> > >    inbox                     = yes
> > >    subscriptions             = yes
> > >    list                      = yes
> > >    type                 	    = private
> > >    hidden                    = no
> > > }
> > 
> > thank you for the idea.
> > 
> > I'll give it a try (there was another variable needed to be set to avoid
> > clashes with "new", but the name escapes me atm), although it doesn't
> > cover a number of special cases that I have, where the location of the
> > mailboxen does not follow this pattern.
> > 
> > In the end, I want the database to be the single source of truth.
> 
> well, I tried, but with no luck. LDA still wants to deliver to
> /var/mail, as before.
> 
> I am pretty sure that it must work somehow to fetch all data from a
> database, because it did before. It would be really strange if someone
> would have culled that functionaility. I am just not yet sure whether
> it's just me not getting it right, or whether there's actually a bug.
> 
> Next stop: Read Dovecot's source code (I dread that), unless someone
> comes up with a better idea.
> 
> Please.
> 
>  
> Thanks,
> Toni

What you are describing will not be solved by looking at dovecot source code. Can you describe your configuration more? Maybe you are running dovecot in chroot or something? Can you consider using LMTP instead of LDA?

Aki