On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:54:10 +0900, Alan Premselaar <alien@12inch.com> wrote:
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Alan Premselaar wrote:
I've setup a test machine and have been playing with dovecot-1.0beta7 and dovecot-lda in preparation for a migration from 0.99.x series. (hopefully with the ability to support imap-quotas)
anyways, i've got it all compiled fine (as far as I can tell) and following the directions on the wiki for setting up dovecot LDA with sendmail. (I've had to alter the configuration a bit since using the mailertable didn't work with my actual hostname).
when I try to use /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver via sendmail, i get a EX_TEMPFAIL. I logged into the machine as the user I'm trying to deliver mail for and do the following:
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d alan
and get the following error:
deliver: Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/mail/alan (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) deliver: Fatal: Failed to create storage for 'alan' with mail '/var/spool/mail/alan'
in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf I have the following:
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = postmaster@pluto.valueclick.ne.jp auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u}
I tried setting the default_mail_env with the same settings but got the same results (i did a complete restart of the dovecot services)
I've even specified the config file with:
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf -d alan
with the same results.
Google is not my friend with this problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this problem?
Thanks,
alan
OK. to reply to my own post, I've made some progress.
while on my lunch break it occurred to me that I should unset the MAIL environment variable when doing the command line test of deliver which changed the results.
if i log in as 'alan' and run the command, i get the following:
deliver: Error: lstat(/home/alan/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied deliver: Panic: i_stream_stat() used for non-blocking seekable stream Aborted
(i hit ^C to cause the panic and abort)
the permissions are as follows:
drwxrwx--- 2 alan mail 20K Apr 26 14:07 cur
- -rw------- 1 alan alan 120 Apr 26 16:26 dovecot.index
- -rw------- 1 alan alan 24 Apr 26 16:26 dovecot.index.log
- -rw------- 1 alan alan 0 Apr 26 16:45 dovecot-uidlist.lock drwxrwx--- 2 alan mail 4.0K Apr 26 13:55 new
- -rwxrwx--- 1 alan mail 12 Apr 26 14:09 subscriptions drwxrwx
In which mode is dovecot-auth-master (socket listen) running? Does user alan has permission to this socket?
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