[Dovecot] Automounted home dirs not working

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:46 -0400, Roy McMorran wrote:
> I'm testing Dovecot as a possible replacement for UW.  In my environment 
> the home directories are automounted via NFS from a NetApp.  In general 
> this works fine, but Dovecot isn't picking up the automounted 
> directories.  Consider the case of Arthur Dent, test user:
> 
> 
> May 12 10:30:24 testbed dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: 
> Login: user=<adent>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.242, 
> lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.242, secured
> May 12 10:30:24 testbed dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(adent): 
> mkdir_parents(/home/adent/Mail) failed: No such file or directory
> May 12 10:30:24 testbed dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(adent): 
> Mail storage creation failed with mail_location: 
> mbox:/home/adent/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/adent
> May 12 10:30:24 testbed dovecot: [ID 961074 mail.error] child 21816 
> (imap) returned error 89

Does this happen only for your LDAP users or also passwd users? Before
the above mkdir() Dovecot should chdir() to user's home directory. So if
LDAP returns user's home directory, I'd think the chdir() causes
automount?

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