looks like your missing the -d option to lda.
Quoting Firma Averlon <info@averlon.net>:
Hi, thanks for offering the oportunity to place a question here.
I am now already working since a week to get postfix and dovecot
working on a ubuntu 11.04 server. Hard task. First step was naturally to get familiar with the idea
behind the archtitecture.I have come very far, but the "last dirty mile" is probably the hardest.
My architecture: Postfix Dovecot OpenLDAP Thunderbird as client with pop3
I can meanwhile send e-mails and open my mailbox in thunderbird (not
receiving mails so far).The reason why not receiving e-Mails is simply: When sending the
mails they are stored in a different directory as where dovecot will
look for them !!!!Error message from log: Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir:
data=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir:
data=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir++:
root=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir, index=, control=,
inbox=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir++:
root=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir, index=, control=,
inbox=/home/vmail//vmail/MaildirWhat you immediatly see: "vmail//vmail"
Although, when authenticating, the result is: Aug 8 14:06:30 server dovecot: auth(default): master out:
USER#0113#011userxxx@av.loc#011gid=5000#011home=/home/userxxx#011uid=5000#011mail=/home/vmail/av.loc/userxxx/Maildir/The following settings are in place: main.cf of postfix:
virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/vhosts virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-virtual.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_transport = dovecot mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
beside others.
master.cf of postfix dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f
${sender} -a ${recipient}dovecot.conf sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
beside others.
I guess, these are the ones influencing where to store the mail and
pick it up.A list of the related filesystem: /home/vmail/ drwx-w--w- 4 vmail vmail 4096 2011-08-08 08:56 av.loc/ drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2011-08-08 09:42 vmail/
Wher you can see, the structure according "mail_location" parameter
of dovecot.conf does show effect, but the mails are stored in
/home/vmail//vmail.....".The whole bunch of documentation I have read meanwhile makes my head
circle around. You could hopefully give me some help.Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards
Hr. Karl-Heinz Fischbach