On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 18:57 +0200, Marcel Grandemange wrote:
I have done all sorts of work arounds now to continue operating without it by using /var/empty and all that , but now my squirrelmail doesn't work like it should anymore.
Uh. You're now using /var/empty, while originally your mails were in ~/mail/? It sounds like you've just kept breaking your setup worse and worse. Do you have your original configs backed up? I'd suggest starting again from there.
Looking at the original mails, the only problem I see is:
user_query = SELECT maildir, concat('/var/mail/',maildir) AS home, 125 AS uid, 125 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
don't return "maildir", it's ignored.
The /var/mail/ base dir is most likely wrong, if /var/mail/%u contained mboxes. So your mail directories exist somewhere else. Find them. This is why relative home dirs are no longer allowed, who knows where they are..