hi all,

i've built

dovecot: Sep 09 18:04:24 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test80 starting up

on OSX 10.4.2.

in addition to pgsql auth, which is working 4 me, i'd like to step-by-step verify simple passwd-file authentication/testing.

unfortunately, i'm having a problem with the login process NOT FINDING the ".../cur" dir.

here are the details ....

my config includes:

...
default_mail_env = 

maildir:/var/Data/Mail/%d/Accounts/%1u/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/Data/Mail/indexes/%d/%n ... auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} passdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} ... } ...

my 'test_user_file' has a test user "testuser@testdomain.com" with an appropriately CRYPT'd pwd

% grep /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file testuser

testuser@mydomain.com:XXXXXXXXXX:65001:65001:/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir::::

when i login via telnet/shell, i get:

% telnet localhost 143
	Trying 127.0.0.1...
	Connected to localhost.
	Escape character is '^]'.
	* OK IMAP ready
	x login testuser@mydomain.com testuser
	x OK Logged in.
	Connection closed by foreign host.

and my log shows:

dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   1       PLAIN 

service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGJsYWtlcnNAb3BlbmV4ZWMuY29tAGJsYWtlcnM= dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser@mydomain.com dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 1486 1 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 testuser@mydomain.com uid=65001 gid=65001 home=/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap-login: Login: user=testuser@mydomain.com, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): Effective uid=65001, gid=65001 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: data=$default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat($default_mail_env) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat($default_mail_env/.imap) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat($default_mail_env/inbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat($default_mail_env/mbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: $default_mail_env (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): Failed to create storage for 'Private/' with data: $default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: child 1496 (imap) returned error 89

ignoring, for the moment the mbox 'complaints', and worrying first about the first:

dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser@mydomain.com): maildir 

autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory

i'm a bit stymied ....

if i understand correctly, that:

autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur)

is looking for: "/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur", which, on my system, exists:

% ls -d /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur
	/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur

as i've had all this working fine with pgsql authentication, i have this sneaking suspicion that i'm missing something obvious here.

thoughts? suggestions?

thx!

richard