Hi Nicola,

I'm guessing Dovecot is failing at your % character in "....like 'var/pop3/%' THEN....." - notice in the log, it's missing the final apostrophe from that string ("....like '/var/pop3/ THEN.....".)

Dovecot is trying to take %' as a substitution character (like %u) and converting it to nothing (I think.)

I'm not 100% certain if this will work, but try changing your % in your SQL query to %% (i.e. make them double %'s instead of single.)

Regards,

Andy

Nicola Tiling wrote:

Dovecot (1.1.1) criticises a sql user_query that's working on the sql console and thats correct.

DOVECOT-LOG: "dovecot: Jul 06 22:58:29 Error: auth(default): sql(nti): User query failed: ERROR: syntax error at or near "mbox" dovecot: Jul 06 22:58:29 Error: auth(default): LINE 1: ...gid, home, (CASE WHEN smtp like '/var/pop3/ THEN 'mbox:' || ..."

QUERY: user_query = SELECT '%u' AS user, uid, gid, home, (CASE WHEN home like '/var/pop3/%' THEN 'mbox:' || home || '/mail/:INDEX=' || home || '/indexes/' WHEN home like '/var/maildir/%' THEN 'maildir:' || home || '/mail/:INDEX=' || home || '/indexes/' END) AS mail FROM users WHERE username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local'

PGSQL-PROMPT: mail=# SELECT 'nti' AS user, uid, gid, home, (CASE WHEN home like '/var/pop3/%' THEN 'mbox:' || home || '/mail/:INDEX=' || home || '/indexes/' WHEN home like '/var/maildir/%' THEN 'maildir:' || home || '/mail/:INDEX=' || home || '/indexes/' END) AS mail FROM users WHERE username = 'nti' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local'; user | uid | gid | home | mail ------+-----+-----+------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------

nti | 99 | 99 | /var/maildir/nti | maildir:/var/maildir/nti/mail/:INDEX=/var/maildir/nti/indexes/