[Dovecot] [SOLVED] %d is empty in mail_location

[Alex Baule]

Add in your auth,conf configuration:

auth_default_realm = [your domain]

2010/5/14 Phil Howard <ttiphil at gmail.com>

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 15:21, Phil Howard <ttiphil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have this in dovecot-postfix.conf:
> >
> > mail_location =
> >
> maildir:/home/mail/dnamesum=%12MLd/dname=%Ld/unamesum=%12MLn/uname=%Ln/mail
> >
> > Yes, it is excessive, but that's just for testing.  The pattern I really
> > want is less clear for debugging.  In postfix/main.cf I have:
> >
> > mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c
> > /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf -a "${RECIPIENT}"
> >
> > I verified through strace that -a "${RECIPIENT}" is in fact getting a
> full
> > user at domain address.  The problem is that %d and %Ld are coming up as
> > empty, and %12MLd is giving me the first 12 hex characters of an md5 of
> an
> > empty content.  It's losing the domain name somewhere.  It's in the mail
> > headers and in the -a option.  So what else is needed?
> >
>
> There was a typo in an earlier config item:
>
> auth_username_format = %Ln at Ld
>
> Maybe that was what someone was screaming at me about when I looked at
> username_format.  I didn't see this until I was trying to figure out why
> the
> passwd file wasn't being read.  I ran strace, and saw that it was trying to
> access a file with "ld" in it.  Even then it took a while because the
> domain
> had been reformed as "Ld" and subsequently lower cased later.
>
> I found this while trying out a subset of a couple suggested configurations
> with some virtual_* settings in Postfix, and using dovecot/deliver via
> transport.
>
> I will now clean up the mess and hope I don't break it doing that.  Then
> slam it with email and see what happens next.
>