dovecot - Jan 2006 - dovecot-lda and vpopmail

I'm setting up a new box with Dovecot 1.0 beta1 and vpopmail.  Normal 
operations works like a charm, i.e. vpopmail virtual can log in 
sucessfully using TLS.

However, when trying to test dovecot-lda out of CVS, it is not locating 
the user:
> *** Starting dovecot-imapd service...
> dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta1 starting up
> dovecot: Info: auth(default): master in: USER   1      
postmaster@example.com service=deliver
> dovecot: Info: auth(default): master out: USER  1       postmaster     
uid=89 gid=89   home=/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/postmaster
> dovecot: Error: auth(default):
except that the "master out" line *has* the correct information,
though
I don't know what that "Error" line is trying to tell me.

However, I am getting the mail bounced back with:
> deliver: Fatal: mail setting not given
which is this error in the src/deliver.c:607

         /* MAIL comes from userdb, DEFAULT_MAIL_ENV from dovecot.conf */
         mail_env = getenv("MAIL");
         if (mail_env == NULL)
                 mail_env = getenv("DEFAULT_MAIL_ENV");
         if (mail_env == NULL)
                 i_fatal_status(EX_CONFIG, "mail setting not given");

which would certainly suggest that the userdb access failed in deliver 
(though the log would see to seem to suggest otherwise).

I even tried setting the DEFAULT_MAIL_ENV in dovecot.conf, but that 
didn't work either.

Anyone have any ideas about what I am missing?

John

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John Peacock
Director of Information Research and Technology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
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John Peacock wrote:
> I even tried setting the DEFAULT_MAIL_ENV in dovecot.conf, but that 
> didn't work either.
Replying to myself.  It seems that DEFAULT_MAIL_ENV is *required* in 
order for dovecot-lda to operate correctly (this is a big limitation, 
IMHO).  The problem was that I was not setting it to the correct value. 
  For the list archives, the correct answer is as follows.

Add the following line to dovecot.conf:

	default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir

and in .qmail-default for the domain have this line:

	| /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $EXT@$USER

and then add a .dovecot.sieve file in the virtual user home directory 
(typically /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user) and it will be 
compiled and acted upon.

John

-- 
John Peacock
Director of Information Research and Technology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
4501 Forbes Boulevard
Suite H
Lanham, MD  20706
301-459-3366 x.5010
fax 301-429-5748