Hello,

I'm still playing with search messages from/to specified email address. In fact I need to do that to take such messages and copy it to another mailbox (so that box will contain 'Search results' and will be available to examine by any IMAP client). I've put my mailings in mdbox storage format, and use latest 2.1 beta version of Dovecot to be sure I use the freshest approach in search (and plan to use Solr FTS as well).

The setup is each, I use

passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot/auth/%Lu }

and

userdb { driver = static args = uid=dovecot gid=dovecot home=/MAIL/mail_storage/%Lu }

and put user:password pair in file named after my mailbox in /etc/dovecot/auth/ (let's name it test@domain.com), and the messages are at /MAIL/mail_storage/test@domain.com/... While I use it from IMAP client it works nicely.

Ok, I put somewhat 5800 messages in INBOX, and IMAP pretty fast in working with it. But as I try to use doveadm to search for messages I need I simple lost my way (doing it under root):

# doveadm search ALL doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied (euid=104(dovecot) egid=106(dovecot) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied

Whatever cli command I try doveadv try to find messages in /root dispute it is at /MAIL/mail_storage/%Lu.

How can I make doveadv use right mail path? In fact, I don't want to use system users to work with mail, it'll be simple virtual mail user, so it is pointless to set up special system user to do that search.

I think I lost myself in general concept of how Dovecot handles users and credentials, so please please please push me in right direction!

Thank you, Alexander