I can't seem to get imap virtual users to work with database authentication on new Scientific Linux 6.5 server with Sendmail 8.14.4 & Dovecot 2.0.9 Apparently I have to also create system users because sendmail/procmail/dovecot want to check directory ownership. So I created a database, made entry for the user, created the user chayes on the system. But %u always contains just chayes instead of chayes@domain.tld even though I tried different select statements to put the entire username in the username field. This causes the following errors:

Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon sendmail[2536]: s9G5APo9002535: forward /var/spool/mail/chayes@domain.tld/chayes/.forward.avalon: Group writable directory Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon sendmail[2536]: s9G5APo9002535: forward /var/spool/mail/chayes@domain.tld/chayes/.forward: Group writable directory Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon dovecot: lda(chayes): Debug: Effective uid=497, gid=497, home=/var/spool/mail/chayes@domain.tld/chayes Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon dovecot: lda(chayes): Debug: Home dir not found: /var/spool/mail/chayes@domain.tld/chayes Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon dovecot: lda(chayes): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/var/spool/mail/chayes:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/chayes Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon dovecot: lda(chayes): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/mail/chayes, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/chayes Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon dovecot: lda(chayes): Error: user chayes: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /var/spool/mail/chayes (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox) Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon dovecot: lda(chayes): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

protocols = imap

mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

password_query = SELECT uNameDomain as username, uDomain as domain, uPass as password FROM users WHERE uName = '%n' AND uDomain = '%d' also tried password_query = SELECT uName as username, uDomain as domain, uPass as password FROM users WHERE uName = '%n' AND uDomain = '%d'

file: /etc/procmailrc

system-wide settings for procmail

SHELL="/bin/bash" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log" DROPPRIVS=yes DELIVER="/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver" #MAILDIR=$HOME/ #DEFAULT=$HOME/ :0 w

• ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | $DELIVER -m spam :0 w | $DELIVER

Thanks in advance