On 04/01/2024 08:21, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
On 03/01/2024 23:38 EET John Fawcett <j...@voipsupport.it> wrote:
Hi
I have recently rectified an old configuration error whereby I had virtual
users' home and mail directories set to the same value.
I used option 3 from "ways to set up home directory"
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/
home_directories_for_virtual_users/
so I have:
home= /var/vmail/domain/user/home/
mail= /var/vmail/domain/user/
where domain and user are substituted for the real domain and user.
For existing users where I created the home directory when migrating the
settings, there is no issue. But I am seeing errors like this for new users:
lmtp(t...@example.com)<125035><EHDOAyS1lWVr6AEAjpgUYA>: Error: autoexpunge:
Couldn't create dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: file_create_locked(/var/vmail/
example.com/t...@example.com/home//dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed:
safe_mkstemp(/var/vmail/example.com/t...@example.com/home//
dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: No such file or directory
Seems that differently to mail directory which is automatically created, the
home directory is not created. I couldn't see any config setting that would
autocreate home directories (where home directories are subdirectories of mail
directories).
Would it be worthwhile introducing an autocreate option for home directories?
John
I don't really understand why you want home to be under mail directory? How
about swapping them around like
home= /var/vmail/domain/user/
mail= /var/vmail/domain/user/mail
because this makes more sense in many ways?
Aki
Hi Aki
thanks, it's clear that swapping them would solve it since mail
directories are being auto created. I can do that.
I was following one of the documented ways of doing it, albeit not the
most preferred way (see point 3 of ways to set up home directory half
way down the page). I guess that both option 2 and 3 will not work
properly unless the home directory is created outside of dovecot (or a
sieve script is published via mangesieve which does autocreate home
directory). Option 4 is what I was using but just discovered it causes
issues (with file that begin with . being interpreted as directories).
It could be useful to add those notes to the documentation.
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/home_directories_for_virtual_users/
best regards
John
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