Hi!

I'm still fighting with lost mails and what I think is a locking problem.

As I've lost some pretty important mails already, I decided to mitigate my troubles by moving to maildir format, which should not be susceptible to these problems.

I read the docs and wanted to test on my account, before I mess with all the others and possibly break something. The way to do it seems to be to do an override via userdb. I already have a passwd-file authdb, so I uncommented those few lines in configuration, and added this to my passwd-file:

krakonos:{SHA256}xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=:1000:100::/home/krakonos:/bin/bash:userdb_mail=maildir:/home/krakonos/Mail

Now, I'm not really sure why it has to be prefixed with userdb_, but the example in docs has it, and it seems to work.

I've attached the relevant part of a logfile, with some debugging enabled, but in short:

Dec 10 18:39:22 ibex dovecot: imap(krakonos): Debug: Added userdb setting: mail=maildir:/home/krakonos/Mail [...] Dec 10 18:39:22 ibex dovecot: imap(krakonos): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/krakonos/Mail, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/home/krakonos/Mail, alt= [...] Dec 10 18:39:52 ibex dovecot: lda(krakonos): Debug: mbox: INBOX defaulted to /home/krakonos/.mbox/inbox

I'm confused why the last line chooses my old mbox over the new location.

I'm even more confused by the fact the IMAP works fine, and as I connect from mutt over imap, I can see empty mailboxes (the ~/Mail has only the basic cur/new/tmp structure).

However, pigeonhole delivers into the .mbox, and not only if it's for INBOX, but also for spam and others.

I read somewhere in the docs that the order is first try userdb, then mail_location and namespaces override the rest. This might be the problem, as I have:

mail_location = mbox:~/.mbox

namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = }

Due to inbox=yes this would explain why inbox is using the default path in mail_location. But why even the spam is delivered into the old mbox? And how do I solve the problem anyway, should I just remove the namespace?

Anyway, it doesn't explain why the IMAP part and pigeonhole apply different rules and show me different inboxes, which is probably a bug.

Thanks!

Here is the rest of my configuration for reference, the log is attached:

# 2.2.26.0 (23d1de6): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) # OS: Linux 4.4.26-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.2 auth_username_format = %n hostname = ibex.krakonos.org login_greeting = Dovecot@krakonos.org ready. mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/.mbox mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = * driver = pam } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute sieve_execute_socket_dir = sieve-execute sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.filter +editheader sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter sieve_filter_socket_dir = sieve-filter sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_pipe_socket_dir = sieve-pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms } postmaster_address = postmaster@krakonos.org protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert =

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