[Dovecot] mail delivery location wrong

[Patrick Domack]

looks like your missing the -d option to lda.


Quoting Firma Averlon <info at averlon.net>:

> Hi,
> thanks for offering the oportunity to place a question here.
>
> I am now already working since a week to get postfix and dovecot  
> working on a ubuntu 11.04 server.
> Hard task. First step was naturally to get familiar with the idea  
> behind the archtitecture.
>
> I have come very far, but the "last dirty mile" is probably the hardest.
>
> My architecture:
> Postfix
> Dovecot
> OpenLDAP
> Thunderbird as client with pop3
>
> I can meanwhile send e-mails and open my mailbox in thunderbird (not  
> receiving mails so far).
>
> The reason why not receiving e-Mails is simply: When sending the  
> mails they are stored in a different directory as where dovecot will  
> look for them !!!!
>
> Error message from log:
> Aug  8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir:  
> data=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir
> Aug  8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir:  
> data=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir
> Aug  8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir++:  
> root=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir, index=, control=,  
> inbox=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir
> Aug  8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir++:  
> root=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir, index=, control=,  
> inbox=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir
>
> What you immediatly see: "vmail//vmail"
>
> Although, when authenticating, the result is:
> Aug  8 14:06:30 server dovecot: auth(default): master out:  
> USER#0113#011userxxx at av.loc#011gid=5000#011home=/home/userxxx#011uid=5000#011mail=/home/vmail/av.loc/userxxx/Maildir/
>
> The following settings are in place:
> main.cf of postfix:
>
> virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/vhosts
> virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail
> virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-virtual.cf
> virtual_minimum_uid = 1000
> virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
> virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
> virtual_transport = dovecot
> mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
>
> beside others.
>
> master.cf of postfix
> dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>   flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f  
> ${sender} -a ${recipient}
>
> dovecot.conf
> sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
> mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
>
> beside others.
>
> I guess, these are the ones influencing where to store the mail and  
> pick it up.
>
> A list of the related filesystem:
> /home/vmail/
> drwx-w--w- 4 vmail vmail 4096 2011-08-08 08:56 av.loc/
> drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2011-08-08 09:42 vmail/
>
> Wher you can see, the structure according "mail_location" parameter  
> of dovecot.conf does show effect, but the mails are stored in  
> /home/vmail//vmail.....".
>
> The whole bunch of documentation I have read meanwhile makes my head  
> circle around.
> You could hopefully give me some help.
> -- 
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards
>
> Hr. Karl-Heinz Fischbach