this is my first post on the dovecot list. i have been using postfix with uw i am getting the email bounced back with this message and i think it is related to dovecot or a permissions issue. thank you. maildir delivery failed: create maildir file /dev/null/Mail/Dovecot/tmp/1212763230.P4560.izmail: Not a directory
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, rashantha de silva wrote:> maildir > delivery failed: create maildir file > /dev/null/Mail/Dovecot/tmp/1212763230.P4560.izmail: Not a directory^^^^^^^^^^ Do you an account using /dev/null as home directory, e.g. someone "locked down" or a dummy account? Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFISVFYVJMDrex4hCIRAqLWAKCqnHs8agaO7alUolgLoDUnq2VA5gCfdhYt DcpqKMqZlVpagLwh6pEycBk=t1iQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 07:57 -0700, rashantha de silva wrote:> this is my first post on the dovecot list. > i have been using postfix with uw > > i am getting the email bounced back with this message and i think it is > related to dovecot or a permissions issue. > > thank you. > > maildir > delivery failed: create maildir file > /dev/null/Mail/Dovecot/tmp/1212763230.P4560.izmail: Not a directoryDovecot doesn't give such an error message or create that kind of maildir filenames, so the problem is your MTA/MDA configuration. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20080606/31c8418f/attachment-0002.bin>