[Dovecot] imap dump-capability fails Dovecot 1.1.6

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 31 18:07:51 EET 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:32 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> Dovecot fails to start after upgrading from 1.1.4 to 1.1.6:
> 
> Fatal: userdb didn't return a home directory, but mail location used it
> (%h): %h/mail:CONTROL=%h/control:INDEX=%h/index
> Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
> Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> Adding a fake home directory to args in
> master-settings.c:get_imap_capability solved the problem for me, but
> there may be a more correct fix.

Yes, that's the correct fix:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/2fbd36039526

One workaround is to use ~ instead of %h. It'll log errors, but it still
works.

Wonder how many people will have this problem.. Perhaps I'll have to
release 1.1.7 just because of it.

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