Mine has always behaved like this.
It looks up the root user in the auth database from the dovecot
config, and attemps to change to that user, and in this type of case
that would be vmail.
Then it attempts to check the mail_home and kind of fails, unless you
give vmail permission to that path that would be created using the
root user.
Quoting Thomas Harold <thomas-li...@nybeta.com>:
On 8/2/2011 8:45 AM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
What versions of Dovecot (obviously v2.0+) and Pigeonhole are you using
and what is your config (show dovecot -n output) ?
I suspect there may be a bug.
dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.3 - downloaded and compiled from source
this week. The dovecot package itself comes from ATRPMs and is
2.0.13.
Name : dovecot
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 2.0.13
Release : 1_129.el5
Size : 5.1 M
Repo : installed
Summary : Dovecot Secure imap server
URL : http://www.dovecot.org/
License : MIT
Name : dovecot-devel
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 2.0.13
Release : 1_129.el5
Size : 667 k
Repo : installed
Summary : Libraries and headers for Dovecot
URL : http://www.dovecot.org/
License : MIT
Output of dovecot -n
# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
release 5.7 (Tikanga)
auth_verbose_passwords = sha1
lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
listen = 127.0.0.1, 1.2.3.4
mail_gid = vmail
mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%n
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_uid = vmail
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 {
args = /etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
plugin {
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve/after/
sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/before/
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/globalinclude/
}
protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
mode = 0666
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
group = vmail
user = vmail
}
}
service imap-login {
process_min_avail = 5
}
service pop3-login {
inet_listener pop3 {
address = 1.2.3.4
}
inet_listener pop3s {
address = 1.2.3.4
}
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/private/certs/example_com.crt
ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/example_com.key
protocol lda {
log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lda
mail_plugins = " sieve"
}
