[Dovecot] Integrating dovecot 1.01 into CentOS-3.8 systemw with chroot passwd dirs?

[Sophie Nicoud]

I had this error, it was a problem of mailbox size from procmail+postfix
I add this to /etc/postfix/mainc.cf file, in order to set the max size 
of inbos at 1Go :
mailbox_size_limit = 1073741824
virtual_mailbox_limit = 1073741824


Sophie

Gary Goldberg a écrit :
> I dug deep into the documentation and I think I understand what's 
> happening, but
> I have no idea what to do about it. I also took a moment and moved the 
> user
> INBOX files back from /home/mail to /var/mail, so that wouldn't 
> confuse anything.
>
> (My mail_location is set to    mail_location: 
> mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u  )
>
> I have two types of users on my system -- those with home directories 
> (set in
> /etc/passwd) of the form
>
>     /home/group/pop/user
>
> who are allowed to access the file system, and
>
>     /home/group/./pop/user
>
> who are chrooted to their home directories for things like ftp.
>
> dovecot appears to be working fine with those users without /./ in their
> password directory fields.
>
> When dovecot gets the user home directory field from PAM, if it sees 
> the /./,
> it chroots them so that their home directory is /pop/user, and their mail
> subdirectory is /pop/user/mail.
>
> But I can't see how dovecot would then access their INBOX, which is 
> located
> outside the chroot in /var/mail/%u.
>
> For example:
>
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<lda07>, 
> method=PLAIN, rip=70.21.123.223, lip=64.191.213.14
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Info: POP3(lda07): Effective uid=10578, gid=510
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Info: POP3(lda07): mbox: 
> data=/pop/lda07/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/lda07
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Info: POP3(lda07): mbox: 
> root=/pop/lda07/mail, index=/pop/lda07/mail, inbox=/var/mail/lda07
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Error: POP3(lda07): open(/var/mail/lda07, 
> O_CREAT) failed: No such file or directory
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Error: POP3(lda07): access() failed with mbox 
> file /var/mail/lda07: No such file or directory
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Error: POP3(lda07): stat() failed with mbox 
> file /var/mail/lda07: No such file or directory
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Error: POP3(lda07): Couldn't init INBOX: 
> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. 
> [2007-07-13 10:59:13]
> dovecot: Jul 13 10:59:13 Info: POP3(lda07): Mailbox init failed 
> top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks. -Gary
>