Problem described: I am trying to get Postfix + Dovecot + MySQL setup to work together in a virtual mail hosting platform. I am running Postfix 2.3.x, and MySQL 5.0.x.

I am trying to use Dovecot's LDA for delivery to the users vmail home directory -- usually under /var/vmail/domain.com/j/jdoe for home and /var/vmail/domain.com/j/jdoe/.maildir for mail location, using MAILDIR format. However, I cannot get Dovecot's LDA to write the maildir folders/files into the right location. It wants to write in MBOX format to /var/vmail/mail/inbox instead. When I force the mail_location variable...it just uses the system 'vmail' user (uid: 1101) and 'vmail' group (gid: 1101) that I assigned for the virtual mail user.

mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%1n/%n

I am not sure where to go to troubleshoot Dovecot LDA...and how to turn up/down the verbosity of debug messages (albeit now I am logging the deliver info to /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log).

Does anyone know what I am missing? Can Dovecot LDA be told how to deliver mail to the users maildir folder?

Here is my postfix master.cf: ... dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender}

Here is my postfix main.cf (as it pertains to dovecot LDA): virtual_transport = dovecot mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1

dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: SMTP ready. login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 5 login_max_connections: 512 mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=mailsql user=mailquery password=m@1l default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT email as user, passwd AS password, concat('/var/vmail',homeDir) as userdb_home, 1101 AS userdb_uid, 1101 AS userdb_gid, concat('maildir:/var/vmail',mailDir) as userdb_mail FROM users WHERE (username = '%u' OR email = '%u' OR email = concat('%u','@domain.net')) AND status = 'A' AND type = 'M' user_query = SELECT concat('/var/vmail',homeDir) as home, 1101 AS uid, 1101 AS gid, concat('maildir:/var/vmail',mailDir) as mail FROM users WHERE username = '%u'

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The schema for my data table is as follows: +----------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +----------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+ | updated | timestamp | YES | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | | | username | tinytext | NO | | NULL | | | email | varchar(128) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | passwd | varchar(128) | YES | | NULL | | | name | tinytext | NO | | NULL | | | status | char(1) | NO | | A | | | type | char(1) | NO | | M | | | homeDir | longtext | YES | | NULL | | | mailDir | longtext | YES | | NULL | | | newEmail | varchar(128) | NO | | NULL | | +----------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Stacy