[Dovecot] Chroot

[Bambero]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 17:25 +0100, Bambero wrote:
>
>> all maildirs are located in: /var/mail/jdoe at example.com/Maildir
>
> So this is /var/mail/%u/Maildir template.
>
>> namespace {
>>   type = shared
>>   separator = /
>>   prefix = shared/%%u/
>>   location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> You can replace this with:
>
> location = maildir:/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> Although if this is used outside chroot (e.g. lmtp, doveadm) it won't
> work correctly..
>
>> Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: No
>> such file or directory
>
> This is done because you used %%h, to look up home directory from
> userdb. If you don't use %%h, it's not done.
>

Thanks but my db backend returns home dir in chroot like
/test at example.com

while the realpath with no chroot is:
/var/mail/test at example.com

So both locations in this case are the same
location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
location = maildir:/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u