[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.2.4 does not create home directory?

Axel Luttgens AxelLuttgens at swing.be
Wed Jul 17 16:24:15 EEST 2013


Le 17 juil. 2013 à 14:32, "Dmitry ." a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> [...]
> 
> And yet, here
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/SimpleVirtualInstall
> it is written
> Users can be added by editing this file. Dovecot automatically notices the
> new users immediately after they're added. It also creates their home
> directories when the user logs in.

Hello Dmitry,

As a side note: the above documents Dovecot 1.x, and you're using 2.2.4.


> However, the directory is not created.
> 
> [...]
> Jul 17 12:49:41 imap(test at example.com): Debug: Effective uid=1202, gid=202,
> home=/var/spool/vmail/example.com/test/
> Jul 17 12:49:41 imap(test at example.com): Debug: Home dir not found:
> /var/spool/vmail/example.com/test/
> Jul 17 12:49:41 imap(test at example.com): Debug: Namespace inbox:
> type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes,
> subscriptions=yes location=maildir:Maildir/
> Jul 17 12:49:41 imap(test at example.com): Debug: maildir++: root=Maildir,
> index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=Maildir, alt=
> Jul 17 12:49:41 imap(test at example.com): Debug: Namespace : Maildir doesn't
> exist yet, using default permissions
> Jul 17 12:49:41 imap(test at example.com): Debug: Namespace : Using
> permissions from Maildir: mode=0700 gid=default

This is a bit strange... are you really sure the home directory hasn't been created?
If yes, do you have some messages in your info.log?

Axel




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