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

Guillaume Hilt postmaster at shadowprojects.org
Sat Jan 3 18:10:01 EET 2009


I'll try that.
For the mail location, it's already the case : ~/.maildir

  Guillaume Hilt




Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> "maildir" field isn't used for anything. Perhaps there is some 
> completely undocumented and unreliable code that makes use of it for 
> pop3/imap, but it is used in no way by Sieve. Try something like:
>
> user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail', maildir) AS home, 207 AS 
> uid, 207 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
>
> And in dovecot.conf:
>
> mail_location = maildir:~/
>
> (or actually preferrably mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir if can 
> afford to change it).
>
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
>
>> In dovecot-sql.conf
>>
>> user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail/',maildir) AS maildir, 207 AS 
>> uid, 207 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
>> So I'll have a complete path like /home/vmail/mydomain/myuser/.
>>
>> Guillaume Hilt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>>> Where did you add that? You'll need to return a "home" field from 
>>> user_query poiting to the sieve script directory.
>>>
>>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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