[Dovecot] Autocreation the home folder

Joan aseques at gmail.com
Tue May 14 11:42:46 EEST 2013


Yes, all folder tree has vmail:vmail as the owner, and dovecot can create
the folders without issues.
I verified that when manually creating those folders, the warnings
disappear, the main issue still remains though.
When I send the first mail to a user he has this layout:
  cur
  dovecot.index.cache
  dovecot.index.log
  dovecot-uidlist
  dovecot-uidvalidity
  dovecot-uidvalidity.5191f7ad
  maildirsize
  new
  tmp

Sadly ,there's no home folder, so I've no other option than to create the
folder by hand?



2013/5/14 Angel L. Mateo <amateo at um.es>

> El 13/05/13 17:50, Steffen Kaiser escribió:
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>> On Mon, 13 May 2013, Joan wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Steffen, that was an error I hadn't spotted (copypasting error). Still
>>> after changing mail_home to the proper value (/home/vmail/%d/%n/home) the
>>> errors in the logs are the same
>>>
>>
>>  Am I supposed to create the folders via an external script? Or is
>>>> there any option to make this automatic.
>>>>
>>>
>> As far as I know, the home directory is not created automatically. You
>> will need to use an external script.
>>
>>          I have this config:
>
> mail_home = /mail/users/mailboxes/%2Ln/%Ln
> mail_location = mdbox:%h/mdbox:INDEX=/mail/**indexes/%2Ln/%Ln
>
>         In my config, mail_home is also auto created (I have dovecot
> 2.1.16)
>
>         Do you have any error? Has dovecot user permissions to create
> direcotories/files under your /var/mail?
>
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