"Ben Halicki" <ben.halicki at macquarietextiles.com.au> writes:

Hi all,

I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's not creating home directories if they don't already exist.

I have the following line in dovecot.conf:

default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so creating directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't be a problem. If I instruct dovecot to use mbox format, directories are created without a problem. The problem only seems to exist with maildir.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Never done this, ISTR there is a PAM module that is supposed to do this (create the directory). It would require you to use PAM, obviously.

-- Matthias Andree Thanks for the reply Matthias. Only problem with PAM and pam_mkhomedir, is that Dovecot doesn't seem to open a session, so pam isn't called and pam_mkhomedir doesn't get the chanceto create a home directory. I can't understand why this works with mbox, but not withmaildir!Thanks again,Ben HalickiInformation Technology OfficerMacquarie Textiles Group LimitedPhone: +61 2 6043 0235Fax: +61 2 6041 1321