On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:00 +0200, Andreas Schulze wrote:
I have all users in ldap. there is an attribute "mailMessageStore" which contains a relative path to users maildir mailMessageStore: sca/
my mailer completes this relative pathinformation to /var/mail/sca/
therefor I setup default_mail_env to "maildir:/var/mail/%h" dovecot-ldap.conf includes "user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid" .. dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Error: POP3(sca): dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Fatal: chdir(sca/) failed with uid 30014: Permission denied
Dovecot tries to chdir() to the home directory before starting up the pop3 process, and since the default startup directory is /var/run/dovecot, it tried to chdir() under it. I've no idea why it happened to be working for you with beta7. Maybe I added some extra check which broke it for you.
One easy way to fix this would be to just comment out the chdir() call from src/master/mail-process.c. The proper way would be to make the home directory be an absolute path.
Perhaps the LDAP code needs a bit more changing so that you can use the values received from LDAP in a template for Dovecot's settings. Something like:
user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home=/var/mail/%1,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid
BTW. This would break that other guy's quota configuration who I just recently replied to that I wouldn't be breaking it.. :)