LMTP "Relative home directory paths not supported"

[Jeff Kletsky]

On 11/20/17 6:15 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>
> On 20.11.2017 16:12, Jeff Kletsky wrote:
>> I'm in the process of moving from LDA to LMTP (Postfix upstream) prior
>> to a transition off `nix accounts to virtual accounts and am stumped
>> by LMTP reporting
>>
>>      dovecot: lmtp(10019, jeff at example.com): Error: Relative home
>> directory paths not supported: 0
>>
>> LDA does /not /have any problems with PAM or passwd-file passdb/userdb
>> and the ubiquitous definition of
>>
>>      mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>>
>> I have yet to be able to get LMTP to deliver mail, nor have I found
>> anything on the Dovecot wiki to describe how to represent that the
>> mail_location is <whatever/userdb/returned/for/home>/Maildir
>>
>> I'd prefer to localize the user-to-file-space mapping localized to
>> Dovecot (rather than split within Postfix and Dovecot)
>>
>> I'd definitely appreciate any pointers to web pages or specific
>> suggestions as to how to resolve this.
>>
>> Excerpts of Dovecot local.conf follow, full doveconf -n output on
>> request. The/users /file is in the same format as FreeBSD
>> /etc/master.passwd with name, password, UID, gid, home_dir, and shell
>> meaningfully populated. The configuration below works with LDA
>> (end-to-end). With LMTP, it identifies <jeff at example.com> as a valid
>> destination, but fails on delivery with the "relative home directory
>> paths" error message.
>>
>> passdb {
>>    driver = passwd-file
>>    args = /path/to/users
>> }
>> userdb {
>>    driver = passwd-file
>>    args = username_format=%n /path/to/users
>> }
>>
>> # See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
>> # https://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
>>
>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>> # mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jeff
> That seems like lmtp is not doing variable expansion for user settings.
> What version of dovecot are you running?
>
> Aki
>
$ sudo jexec mail dovecot --version
2.2.32 (dfbe293d4)

Jeff