[Dovecot] dovecot-lda can not find home dir

[Pete]

Hello,

Running dovecot 2.0.11 and pigeonhole on Fedora 14 x86_64.  The lda
can not seem to find the user's home directory, yet other parts of
dovecot (pop3, imap, managesieve) can.

Grepping "Effective uid" from /var/log/maillog:
Mar 29 11:21:34 new-eagle dovecot: pop3(pete): Debug: Effective
uid=726, gid=726, home=/home/pete
Mar 29 11:23:18 new-eagle dovecot: imap(pete): Debug: Effective
uid=726, gid=726, home=/home/pete
Mar 29 11:23:52 new-eagle dovecot: managesieve(pete): Debug: Effective uid=726,
gid=726, home=/home/pete
Mar 29 11:24:53 new-eagle dovecot: managesieve(pete): Debug: Effective uid=726,
gid=726, home=/home/pete
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: Effective
uid=726, gid=726, home=

Although mail does get delivered, the .dovecot.lda-dupes file can not
be created because of this:
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda: Debug: Loading modules from
directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: Effective
uid=726, gid=726, home=
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: fs:
root=/home/pete/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/pete
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: userdb lookup
skipped, username taken from passwd lookup for process euid
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: none: root=,
index=, control=, inbox=
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Error: User pete doesn't
have home dir set, disabling duplicate database
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: sieve: using
sieve path for user's script: /home/pete/.dovecot.sieve
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: sieve: opening
script /home/pete/.dovecot.sieve
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: sieve: script
/home/pete/.dovecot.sieve successfully compiled
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): Debug: sieve: executing
script from /home/pete/.dovecot.sieve
Mar 29 11:26:15 new-eagle dovecot: lda(pete): sieve:
msgid=<FF641E3CEA3748B5B7D678ABE85F1A7B at pete1>: stored mail into
mailbox 'INBOX'

Dovecot seems to be able to determine the user's home directory, but I
do not know how to tell dovecot-lda where it is.

Running "doveadm user pete" produces:
userdb: pete
  system_groups_user: pete
  uid       : 726
  gid       : 726
  home      : /home/pete

In /home/pete, the .forward file is:
| "/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda"

Entry from /etc/passwd:
pete:x:726:726:Peter:/home/pete:/bin/false

Output of dovecot -n:
# 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext4
auth_cache_size = 10 M
auth_debug = yes
auth_mechanisms = login plain
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
listen = *
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment mailbox date
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin/sieve = /home/%u/.dovecot.sieve
plugin/sieve_dir = /home/%u/sieve
protocols = pop3 imap sieve
rejection_reason = Sorry, your message was automatically rejected:%n%r
rejection_subject = failure notice re: %s
service managesieve-login {
  inet_listener sieve {
    port = 4190
  }
}
ssl = no
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
protocol lda {
  mail_plugins = sieve

I did update from dovecot-2.0.9 (which the lda could find the home
directory) but I also had to change the mail_location from:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
to:  mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY

Also had to change:
plugin/sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
plugin/sieve_dir = ~/sieve

To:
plugin/sieve = /home/%u/.dovecot.sieve
plugin/sieve_dir = /home/%u/sieve

... in order for 2.0.11 to function.

Any thoughts on how to get the home dir passed correctly to lda ?

Thanks,
Pete