[Dovecot] Failed to create storage with data:

[Chris Wakelin]

Do you have a default_mail_env set up? Does it work with

default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n

?

It looks to me like it should create the directory if missing; see 
src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c in maildir_create()

Mind you, I'm not at all familiar with the maildir code yet ...

Best Wishes,
Chris

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:44:43 +0200 Matthieu Imbert 
<matthieu.imbert at ens-lsh.fr> wrote:

> Hi, i'm using dovecot-1.0-stable.
> 
> All my mail accounts are virtual accounts that come from pam with the 
> following configuration in auth_default:
>    passdb = pam
>    userdb = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n 
> mail=/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n
> 
> for a user foo, if the directory /var/mail/vhost/example.com/foo already 
> exists, then all is ok, but if the directory doesn't exists, it seems 
> dovecot is unable to create it "on the fly". I get the following error 
> message:
>    Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/vhost/example.com/foo
> 
> i'm quite sure it is not a permission related problem (i made 
> /var/mail/vhost/example.com world writable to be sure).
> 
> I'm currently trying to understand the maildir code... But could someone 
> tell me if the maildir directory should exist for dovecot to work ?
> 
> In the case that the answer is yes, i would say in advance that it's a 
> problem for sites hosting a lot of virtual users, since it means that 
> these users must receive at least one mail for their mail account to 
> work correctly (i use postfix as MTA, and if the user's maildir doesn't 
> exist, postfix takes care of creating it). I'm not very fond of 
> solutions with scripts taking care of creating users.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your answers :)
> 
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