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

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jul 19 11:05:57 EEST 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 11:06 -0400, Gary Goldberg wrote:
> But I can't see how dovecot would then access their INBOX, which is located
> outside the chroot in /var/mail/%u.

It couldn't. Your original mail had:

mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/home/mail/%u

So I thought the mailboxes were in home directory (and symlinked
to /var/mail/).

So the only way to get chrooting to work would be to place all the
mailboxes inside the chroot.
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