How does dovecot determine users from /etc/passwd?

[Sami Ketola]

Hi,

how about switching to use autoexpunge?

https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings <https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings>

Sami


> On 17 Feb 2020, at 11.01, Philip Colmer <philip.colmer at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> We're using dovecot on a help desk ticketing system. The system
> doesn't perform any cleanup of IMAP mailboxes so we have a regular
> cronjob doing this:
> 
> /usr/bin/doveadm flags add -A '\Deleted' SEEN SENTBEFORE 12w &&
> /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -A DELETED MAILBOX '*'
> 
> Recently, doveadm has been reporting this:
> 
> doveadm(nobody): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '':
> mkdir(/nonexistent/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody)
> egid=65534(nogroup))
> doveadm(nobody): Error: User init failed
> doveadm(DEFAULT-CW-USER): Info: User no longer exists, skipping
> 
> Indeed, using
> 
> doveadm user "*"
> 
> does include "nobody" in the list but I can't understand why. The mail
> group in /etc/group does not include "nobody" and there are users in
> /etc/passwd with similar attributes to "nobody" that do not appear in
> the list of users from doveadm.
> 
> What can I do to tell doveadm to forget about "nobody"?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Philip

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20200217/2b5ce7d8/attachment.html>