on 3-13-2009 1:04 PM Frank Bonnet spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 3-13-2009 2:33 AM Frank Bonnet spake the following: >>> Scott Silva wrote: >>>> on 3-12-2009 10:29 AM Frank Bonnet spake the following: >>>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>> since few days I got this in dovecot log >>>>> >>>>> I use 1.1.11 on Debian etch 64 bits >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for any info >>>>> >>>> You need to give more info before you get more info. >>>> How about if mail is local to machine or on NFS. >>>> And also dovecot -n output. >>>> >>>> >>> OK >>> >>> mail is local ( IBM X3650 RAID5 array ) >>> >>> mail:~# dovecot -n >>> # 1.1.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf >>> # OS: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 4.0 >>> log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log >>> info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log >>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>> login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login >>> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login >>> login_processes_count: 6 >>> max_mail_processes: 4096 >>> verbose_proctitle: yes >>> mail_privileged_group: mail >>> mail_location: mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u >> The docs say that ~/ is better than %h, and I think %h/ would be invalid for >> mbox. Maybe if you try mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u or at least >> %h without the trailing / > > OK gonna check that > >> Do you actually want the mboxes in the root of their home directories? >> ~/mail is probably safer as it will keep dovecot from trying to access other >> files that might be in the root of their home directories. >> So the best and safest would be mail_location = >> mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > > The machine is a "mail server only" that's why I did this there are no > other files than imap folders in users's home directories. > > Thanks for your help :-) > > Another thing to check is that all home directories have proper permissions for the users, and the group mail, and that all users are a member of that group.
I also saw some warning on the wiki about the "mail_privileged_group:" not functioning in the deliver module -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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