dovecot - Feb 2006 - not creating homedirs when using maildir format

Hi all,

I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's not 
creating home directories if they don't already exist.

I have the following line in dovecot.conf:

default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so creating 
directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't be a problem. 
If I instruct dovecot to use mbox format, directories are created without a 
problem.  The problem only seems to exist with maildir.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks and regards,

Ben Halicki
Information Technology Officer
Macquarie Textiles Group Limited
Phone: +61 2 6043 0235
Fax: +61 2 6041 1321

"Ben Halicki" <ben.halicki at macquarietextiles.com.au> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's
not
> creating home directories if they don't already exist.
>
> I have the following line in dovecot.conf:
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so
> creating directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't
be
> a problem. If I instruct dovecot to use mbox format, directories are
> created without a problem.  The problem only seems to exist with maildir.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Never done this, ISTR there is a PAM module that is supposed to do this
(create the directory). It would require you to use PAM, obviously.

-- 
Matthias Andree

"Ben Halicki" <ben.halicki at macquarietextiles.com.au> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's
not
> creating home directories if they don't already exist.
>
> I have the following line in dovecot.conf:
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so
> creating directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't
be
> a problem. If I instruct dovecot to use mbox format, directories are
> created without a problem.  The problem only seems to exist with maildir.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Never done this, ISTR there is a PAM module that is supposed to do this
(create the directory). It would require you to use PAM, obviously.

-- 
Matthias Andree
Thanks for the reply Matthias.  Only problem with PAM and pam_mkhomedir, is 
that Dovecot doesn't seem to open a session, so pam isn't called and 
pam_mkhomedir doesn't get the chanceto create a home directory.  I can't
understand why this works with mbox, but not withmaildir!Thanks again,Ben 
HalickiInformation Technology OfficerMacquarie Textiles Group LimitedPhone: 
+61 2 6043 0235Fax: +61 2 6041 1321

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:53 +1100, Ben Halicki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's
not
> creating home directories if they don't already exist.
Are you using 1.0betas? Older Dovecot versions didn't try to create the
full directory path to mailboxes with maildir.

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