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

Guillaume Hilt postmaster at shadowprojects.org
Sat Jan 3 18:19:33 EET 2009


Looks like using "As home" in the sql request corrected the problem :)
Thanks Timo ;)

  Guillaume Hilt




Guillaume Hilt a écrit :
> I'll try that.
> For the mail location, it's already the case : ~/.maildir
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>  Guillaume Hilt
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> 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:
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>> user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail', maildir) AS home, 207 AS 
>> uid, 207 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
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>> And in dovecot.conf:
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>> mail_location = maildir:~/
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>> (or actually preferrably mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir if can 
>> afford to change it).
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>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
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>>> In dovecot-sql.conf
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>>> 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/.
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>>> Guillaume Hilt
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>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>>>>>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
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>>>>>>> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>>>>>>>> On Jan 2, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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