[Dovecot] Dovecot-LDA problems (CVS version) Signal 11 and empty 'mail' dir

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Wed Sep 14 16:52:09 EEST 2005


On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:22 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> I'm trying dovecot-lda (deliver.c has CVS version 1.18). When I try to
>> deliver a mail, an empty directory is created name $HOME/mail.
>
> Yes, this is a bug in it. It's because internally it creates a mbox
> storage for the mail it's going to deliver. That code then figures out
> it wants to create the default mail directory.. Hmm. I changed it
> to /tmp now, maybe I'll figure out something better later.

I have tested the new LDA, it now does no longer create the 'mail' 
directory, nor does it segfault when the homedirectory is not available.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser


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