Hello everyone,
I recently updated to dovecot 2.0.19 (in fact, I updated the whole
system to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I am using the dovecot from the Ubuntu
packages) and just today found out that the dovecot-lda for some reason
doesn't auto-create missing folders anymore as it did with my old
installation (1.0.10).
I have a "system users" layout and send my mails through a user-specific
procmail filter. Every delivery in those filters is done via dovecot-lda
using a line list this:
|$DELIVER -d archive -m lists.hylafax-`date "+%Y%m"`
where $DELIVER is set to
DELIVER="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda"
(I use the sudo because some of the procmail lines deliver the mail to
folders in a different user's mailbox.)
This works fine for all users, unless the mail folder to be delivered to
doesn't exist yet. Here's an example of such a delivery attempt:
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda: Debug: auth input: archive
system_groups_user=archive uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/home/archive
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Effective uid=1002, gid=1002,
home=/home/archive
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : type=private,
prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
location=maildir:/home/archive/Maildir
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: maildir++:
root=/home/archive/Maildir, index=, control=,
inbox=/home/archive/Maildir, alt=
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=,
inbox=, alt=
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Destination address: x...@xxxx.de
(source: user@hostname)
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace :
/home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using
default permissions
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions
from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace :
/home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using
default permissions
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions
from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info:
msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_r...@earthshod.co.uk>: save failed
to open mailbox lists.hylafax-201210: Mailbox doesn't exist:
lists.hylafax-201210
Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info:
msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_r...@earthshod.co.uk>: saved mail to
INBOX
Can anyone tell me what goes wrong here and how to fix it? From what I
could find out dovecot-lda should auto-create those mailbox folders, but
somehow it doesn't. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Kasi Mir
