Chris Wakelin wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:44:43 +0200 Matthieu Imbert matthieu.imbert@ens-lsh.fr wrote:
Hi, i'm using dovecot-1.0-stable.
All my mail accounts are virtual accounts that come from pam with the following configuration in auth_default: passdb = pam userdb = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n mail=/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n
for a user foo, if the directory /var/mail/vhost/example.com/foo already exists, then all is ok, but if the directory doesn't exists, it seems dovecot is unable to create it "on the fly". I get the following error message: Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/vhost/example.com/foo
i'm quite sure it is not a permission related problem (i made /var/mail/vhost/example.com world writable to be sure).
I'm currently trying to understand the maildir code... But could someone tell me if the maildir directory should exist for dovecot to work ?
In the case that the answer is yes, i would say in advance that it's a problem for sites hosting a lot of virtual users, since it means that these users must receive at least one mail for their mail account to work correctly (i use postfix as MTA, and if the user's maildir doesn't exist, postfix takes care of creating it). I'm not very fond of solutions with scripts taking care of creating users.
Do you have a default_mail_env set up? Does it work with
default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n
?
It looks to me like it should create the directory if missing; see src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c in maildir_create()
Mind you, I'm not at all familiar with the maildir code yet ...
Best Wishes, Chris
Yes i have this default_mail_env set (though i forgot to mention it my initial question)