[Dovecot] Integrating dovecot 1.01 into CentOS-3.8 systemw with chroot passwd dirs?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 13 02:16:35 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 17:33 -0400, Gary Goldberg wrote:
> Hello. I'm administrating a CentOS 3.8 linux system (RHEL3) and I just replaced
> the imap-2002d-12 package that came with the system, with a dovecot 1.01
> package I obtained through the dovecot home page. The problem I have, is that
> many of my POP3 users have jailed user accounts set up through wu-ftpd, where
> the dir field is of the form /home/group/./pop/user, and wu-ftpd chroots them
> from /home/group but then places them into their home directories, in this case
> /home/group/pop/user. dovecot can't seem to locate their mail directory.

Dovecot chroots the users as well then.

> mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/home/mail/%u

Change this to:

mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/%u

Does it work then?
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