[Dovecot] Dovecot mail_location creating duplicate mbox mail directories

16 May 2011


      Hi all,
I'm using dovecot v2.0.11 on fedora14 with postfix. This system was
migrated from an old UW mbox system, so users already have
~/mail/INBOX.* files. Now for some reason, dovecot is creating
~/mail/mail/INBOX.* files and somehow not seeing the mail_location
properly.
I've set mail_location to "mail_location =
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u", which has worked on a similar
system I migrated, but I can't understand why it would try and create
a "mail" subdiretory under the ~/mail directory. Even if I set
mail_location to just mbox:~ instead, it doesn't create the
.subscriptions file properly, and still creates them with
"mail/INBOX.Trash" for example.
Below is my doveconf. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Is there a way to
have doveconf only print those values that differ from the defaults?
# 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
auth_anonymous_username = anonymous
auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 hours
auth_cache_size = 0
auth_cache_ttl = 1 hours
auth_debug = no
auth_debug_passwords = no
auth_default_realm =
auth_failure_delay = 2 secs
auth_first_valid_uid = 500
auth_gssapi_hostname =
auth_krb5_keytab =
auth_last_valid_uid = 0
auth_master_user_separator =
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_realms =
auth_socket_path = auth-userdb
auth_ssl_require_client_cert = no
auth_ssl_username_from_cert = no
auth_use_winbind = no
auth_username_chars =
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@
auth_username_format =
auth_username_translation =
auth_verbose = no
auth_verbose_passwords = no
auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
auth_worker_max_count = 30
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot
config_cache_size = 1 M
debug_log_path =
default_client_limit = 2000
default_idle_kill = 60
default_internal_user = dovecot
default_login_user = dovenull
default_process_limit = 100
default_vsz_limit = 256 M
deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
dict_db_config =
director_doveadm_port = 0
director_mail_servers =
director_servers =
director_user_expire = 15 mins
disable_plaintext_auth = yes
dotlock_use_excl = yes
doveadm_socket_path = doveadm-server
doveadm_worker_count = 0
first_valid_gid = 1
first_valid_uid = 500
hostname =
imap_capability =
imap_client_workarounds =
imap_id_log =
imap_id_send =
imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins
imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o
imap_max_line_length = 64 k
import_environment = TZ
info_log_path =
last_valid_gid = 0
last_valid_uid = 0
lda_mailbox_autocreate = no
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = no
lda_original_recipient_header =
libexec_dir = /usr/libexec/dovecot
listen = *, ::
lmtp_proxy = no
lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = no
lock_method = fcntl
log_path = syslog
log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S "
login_access_sockets =
login_greeting = Dovecot ready.
login_log_format = %$: %s
login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c
login_trusted_networks =
mail_access_groups =
mail_attachment_dir =
mail_attachment_fs = sis posix
mail_attachment_hash = %{sha1}
mail_attachment_min_size = 128 k
mail_cache_fields = flags
mail_cache_min_mail_count = 0
mail_chroot =
mail_debug = yes
mail_fsync = optimized
mail_full_filesystem_access = no
mail_gid = mail
mail_home =
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u): "
mail_max_keyword_length = 50
mail_max_lock_timeout = 0
mail_max_userip_connections = 10
mail_never_cache_fields = imap.envelope
mail_nfs_index = no
mail_nfs_storage = no
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot
mail_plugins =
mail_privileged_group = mail
mail_save_crlf = no
mail_temp_dir = /tmp
mail_uid =
mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 secs
mailbox_list_index_disable = no
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
maildir_stat_dirs = no
maildir_very_dirty_syncs = no
master_user_separator =
mbox_dirty_syncs = yes
mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 2 mins
mbox_lazy_writes = yes
mbox_lock_timeout = 5 mins
mbox_min_index_size = 0
mbox_read_locks = fcntl
mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
mdbox_preallocate_space = no
mdbox_rotate_interval = 0
mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M
mmap_disable = no
passdb {
args =
deny = no
driver = pam
master = no
pass = no
}
passdb {
args =
deny = no
driver = pam
master = no
pass = no
}
pop3_client_workarounds =
pop3_enable_last = no
pop3_fast_size_lookups = no
pop3_lock_session = no
pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
pop3_no_flag_updates = no
pop3_reuse_xuidl = no
pop3_save_uidl = no
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
postmaster_address =
protocols = imap pop3 lmtp
quota_full_tempfail = no
recipient_delimiter = +
rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r
rejection_subject = Rejected: %s
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
service anvil {
chroot = empty
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = anvil
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 4294967295 secs
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1
process_min_avail = 1
protocol =
service_count = 0
type = anvil
unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener anvil {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service auth-worker {
chroot =
client_limit = 1
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = auth -w
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 1
type =
unix_listener auth-worker {
group =
mode = 0600
user = $default_internal_user
}
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service auth {
chroot =
client_limit = 4096
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = auth
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
unix_listener auth-client {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener auth-login {
group =
mode = 0600
user = $default_internal_user
}
unix_listener auth-master {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener login/login {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service config {
chroot =
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = config
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type = config
unix_listener config {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service dict {
chroot =
client_limit = 1
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = dict
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener dict {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service director {
chroot =
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = director
extra_groups =
fifo_listener login/proxy-notify {
group =
mode = 00
user =
}
group =
idle_kill = 4294967295 secs
inet_listener {
address =
port = 0
ssl = no
}
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener director-admin {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener director-userdb {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener login/director {
group =
mode = 00
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service dns_client {
chroot =
client_limit = 1
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = dns-client
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener dns-client {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
unix_listener login/dns-client {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service doveadm {
chroot =
client_limit = 1
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = doveadm-server
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 1
type =
unix_listener doveadm-server {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service imap-login {
chroot = login
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = imap-login
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
inet_listener imap {
address =
port = 143
ssl = no
}
inet_listener imaps {
address =
port = 993
ssl = yes
}
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 20
protocol = imap
service_count = 0
type = login
user = $default_login_user
vsz_limit = 64 M
}
service imap {
chroot =
client_limit = 1
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = imap
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1024
process_min_avail = 0
protocol = imap
service_count = 1
type =
unix_listener login/imap {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service lmtp {
chroot =
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = lmtp
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol = lmtp
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener lmtp {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user =
vsz_limit = 0
}
service log {
chroot =
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = log
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type = log
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service pop3-login {
chroot = login
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = pop3-login
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
inet_listener pop3 {
address =
port = 110
ssl = no
}
inet_listener pop3s {
address =
port = 995
ssl = yes
}
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol = pop3
service_count = 1
type = login
user = $default_login_user
vsz_limit = 64 M
}
service pop3 {
chroot =
client_limit = 1
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = pop3
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1024
process_min_avail = 0
protocol = pop3
service_count = 1
type =
unix_listener login/pop3 {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service ssl-params {
chroot =
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = ssl-params
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
privileged_group =
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type = startup
unix_listener login/ssl-params {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user =
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
shutdown_clients = yes
ssl = yes
ssl_ca =
ssl_cert =

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