Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Expire doesn't work

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 02:43 +0200, Stef Simoens wrote:

mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/%u

This doesn't work with expire-tool, because the way

A strace on /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test

works is that dovecot binary first reads dovecot.conf and expands all %u to root. Then it executes expire-tool, which no longer sees %u at all there. The only way to get this working is to have userdb return the path. So:

a) mail_location = dbox:~/ and have userdb return home.

b) Have userdb return mail=dbox:/var/mail/<username>

userdb: driver: passwd

You should be able to do either of those with something like:

userdb passwd { args = mail=dbox:/var/mail/%u }

v2.0 fixes this problem properly.