[Dovecot] ACL plugin when file in Maildir is not a directory

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 20 22:42:33 EET 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:55 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> Hello Timo, 
> 
> On a production (by that I mean many users) dovecot-1.1.8/Maidir server where
> ACL plugin has been enabled, I ran on a log verbosity problem :
> 
> For some reason (in fact, due to mbox -> Maildir migration script), some people
> have in their Maildir a .procmail.logfile file.
> 
> The problem is that dovecot (or the ACL plugin) wants to find a dovecot-acl
> file in what it would like to be a directory, and then complains :
> 
>   dovecot: IMAP(xxxxxxxx): open(/courriel/boites/xxxxxxxx/.procmail.logfile/dovecot-acl) failed: Not a directory

maildir_stat_dirs=yes probably fixes this?

> One more thing : would I have a log (or in what verbosity setup would I have
> one) line complaining about no-acl in the system wide acl directory :
> 
>   acl = vfile:/opt/dovecot/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=300
> 
> as a matter of fact, /opt/dovecot/dovecot-acls is empty for me (I don't need it
> for now).

What do you mean? Complain about what? Missing global ACL files? That
wouldn't really make sense.
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