I hate to do this, but I seem to have stumbled on the answer as soon as I hit "send". Is it correct that setting default_mail_env to an empty string is the solution??? * On 19/11/05 23:05 +0300, Wash wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I am playing with the $subject matter using 1.0alpha4, and thanks to the archives, I lifted this one from Alexander Shikoff off and used it in my setup.

auth default { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb pam { args = pop3 } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } }

It seems to work, but I have virtual users as well as system users. System accounts have their mail stored as follows:

default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir

While virtual users have this:

default_mail_env = maildir:/htdocs/virtual/spool/%d/%u/Maildir

Now, virtual users can login because I have used their $default_mail_env in my configuration.

I am stuck how to get system users to successfully access their e-mails. Here is the error I get:

beastie# telnet 0 110 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Welcome. Dovecot is Ready to serve. user wash +OK pass a_verysecret1 +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host.

In the log file, here is what I see:

dovecot: Nov 19 23:22:11 Error: pop3(wash): mkdir(/htdocs/virtual/spool//wash/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 19 23:22:11 Error: pop3(wash): mkdir(/htdocs/virtual/spool//wash/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 19 23:22:11 Error: pop3(wash): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.

... which is wrong, since mail for user "wash" is in /home/wash/Maildir.

How do I make dovecot work in this situation?

Thanks in advance.

-Wash

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