HI Timo & all.
We're an mbox environment, inboxes in /var/mail/$USER (I'll include dovecot
-n output at the bottom of this mail). mail_location is set accordingly for
deliver.
I'd assumed that if the /var/mail/$USER file doesn't exist, dovecot would
create it, but we've discovered from experience (and I verified it in
mbox-storage.c) that if access(path, R_OK|W_OK) fails--as it does if the
file doesn't exist--that dovecot defaults then to delivering in
root_dir/inbox.
I'm curious why this is. It seems like if the configured INBOX file doesn't
exist, dovecot should create it if possible; it's a different case than if,
say, the user doesn't have write access to that directory, in which case it
of course would be appropriate to fall back to some other location rather
than rejecting mail.
Is there something I'm missing that makes my idea wrong? Thanks,
-Brian Hayden
OIT Internet Services
University of MN
# ./dovecot -n
# /etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot.conf
syslog_facility: local6
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
listen(default): *:143
listen(imap): *:143
listen(pop3): *:110
ssl_listen(default): *:993
ssl_listen(imap): *:993
ssl_listen(pop3): *:995
ssl_cert_file: /etc/opt/openssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/opt/openssl/private/dovecot.pem
shutdown_clients: no
login_dir: /var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> pid=<%p> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c
login_processes_count: 32
login_max_processes_count: 6000
max_mail_processes: 8192
first_valid_uid: 100
mail_location:
mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/
mail_debug: yes
mbox_lazy_writes: no
mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/mail_path.sh
mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/mail_path.sh
mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): acl
mail_plugins(imap): acl
mail_plugins(pop3):
mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_log_prefix: [%p] %Us(%u):
mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
location: mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/
inbox: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: mail/
location: mbox:~/mail/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/
hidden: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: ~/mail/
location: mbox:~/mail/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/
hidden: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: ~%u/mail/
location: mbox:~/mail/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/
hidden: yes
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
prefix: Shared/
location:
maildir:~/Maildir/Shared/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared-control
auth default:
username_format: %Lu
passdb:
driver: pam
args: session=yes *
userdb:
driver: passwd
plugin:
acl: vfile:
