websafe wrote:

Hi :)

I hope this short example shows what problem I have:

# returns users homedir from /etc/passwd

grep user1 /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f6

# result:

/home/group-subdir/user1

And the logfile...

#maillog imap-login: Login: user1 [192.168.0.253] imap(user1): mkdir(/home/user1/Maildir/.Trash) failed: No such file or directory

Why Dovecot tries to create /home/user1/Maildir/.Trash and NOT /home/group-subdir/user1/Maildir/.Trash as in /etc/passwd ???

Is there any solution? I'm running 0.99.14 # cat /etc/dovecot.conf ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no login = imap verbose_proctitle = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd /etc/passwd auth_passdb = shadow /etc/shadow auth_user = root

Thanks in advance,

Take a look at your default_mail_env setting....right there you are telling it to use /home/user1/Maildir. I'm not sure if there is a %var for group; I didn't see on in my dovecot.conf, but it's 0.99.10...and I know I should upgrade it, but it currently works for the one(!) user (me) that gets mail on my test server....

RAC