On 09/03/2009 12:35 PM Baptiste Malguy wrote:

Hello,

I've just subscribed to the list, as a recent user of Dovecot (1.2.4 by now).

I eventually missed a point, so I tried to find other doc or comments about my issue, but failed to. If the following has already been discussed, please simply reply with a URL to the corresponding thread or doc ;-)

Now that I have covered my ass, here is the problem I meet.

In dovecot.conf, I have the following: mail_uid = vmail mail_guid = vmail which is confirmed with 'dovecot -n'

I have a script my-expire-tool-test containing: #!/bin/sh set which basically only display environment variables.

When I run : /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext my-expire-tool-test I do not see any variable MAIL_UID nor MAIL_GID. As a consquence, when I run /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext my-expire-tool with my-expire-tool containing: #!/bin/sh

# This script is a workaround for Dovecot 1.2 having issue to load modules when running expire-tool. # More information: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire, search Dovecot v1.2

MAIL_PLUGINS=${MAIL_PLUGINS//antispam/} MAIL_PLUGINS=${MAIL_PLUGINS//imap_acl/} MAIL_PLUGINS=${MAIL_PLUGINS//imap_quota/} MAIL_PLUGINS=${MAIL_PLUGINS//mail_log/}

exec /usr/lib/dovecot/expire-tool "$@"

It politely tells me: Error: userdb(user@domain) didn't return uid and mail_uid not set

Actually, this is this message error that lead me to check the environment variables. Then I also checked the source code, and run: grep -r env_put . | grep -i mail_

No trace of mail_uid nor mail_gid. Did I find a bug or did I miss a point ?

Hi,

sorry I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/Static may help you.

Regards, Pascal

The trapper recommends today: deadbeef.0924612@localdomain.org

This should fix it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/eb22a456a625