Quota plugin creates IMAP folder

[Thorsten Hater]

This is from my config

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

and in my userdb-ldap.conf

user_attrs = \
  ... \
  =home=%{ldap:homedir}, \
  ...

Am I missing something?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:

> This is a configuration issue, not a bug.
>
> use
>
> mail_home=/path/to/some/directory
>
> mail_location=maildir~/Maildir
>
> that is, make sure the mail location is under mail home (even for
> virtual users).
>
> Aki
>
>
> On 24.01.2018 13:03, Thorsten Hater wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have noticed recently that Dovecot creates lock directories
> > under users' Maildirs which look like IMAP folders. This is bad
> > since users will see IMAP folders that are not supposed to be
> > there.
> >
> > In my logs I see
> >
> > dovecot: imap(...): Error:
> > file_create_locked(/.../Maildir/.vsize.lock) failed: Is a directory
> >
> > The directory in question
> >
> > # ls /.../Maildir/.vsize.lock/
> > cur/
> > dovecot.index.log
> > dovecot-uidlist
> > maildirfolder
> > new/
> > tmp/
> >
> > so Dovecot seems to think this to be an IMAP folder.
> >
> > I am using Dovecot 2.2.27 under Debian, built from source,
> > the lock_method is set to fnctl, and the quota plugin uses the
> > maildir method.
> >
> > Can somebody advice me on how to fix this?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >  Thorsten
>
>
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