[Dovecot] deliver looking into root directory for sieve configuration ?

Guillaume Hilt postmaster at shadowprojects.org
Sat Jan 3 17:35:06 EET 2009


Anyway, I correct the sql request by adding a concat with .home/vmail/ 
and now I have the good home directory but the error still occurs.
Setting sieve_global_dir didn't change anything.

  Guillaume Hilt




Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
>
>> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>>> On Jan 2, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jan  2 14:48:52 mail deliver(postmaster at adomain.fr): chdir(/root) 
>>>> failed: Permission denied
>>> ..
>>>> Why does it look inside the /root folder for sieve configuration ?
>>>
>>> Your userdb returns /root as home directory. Show your 
>>> dovecot-sql.conf and enable auth_debug=yes and show the logs again.
>>>
>>>
>> Oh.
>>
>> Postfixadmin inly store a portion of the maildir path.
>> Instead of storing /home/vmail/domain/user it stores domain/user.
>
>
> OK. Looks like I was a bit wrong. Your userdb doesn't return any home 
> directory (it's preferred to return one, 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs) and deliver preserves 
> HOME environment which is set to /root in your case. That causes the 
> chdir() error. I think I'll have to do something about this in v1.2. 
> The HOME environment shouldn't be preserved when using -d parameter.
>
>


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