dovecot - Jul 2008 - Strange checkpassword issue

I'm helping a friend setup a small mailserver using dovecot, and I'm 
finding a strange problem with checkpasswd that I haven't had on my 
servers. 

How is the following debug output even possible?

Jul 25 12:12:20 company2 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER       5      
joe       home=/var/mail/joe.com/joe/Maildir/  uid=1005        gid=1005
Jul 25 12:12:20 company2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joe>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jul 25 12:12:20 company2 dovecot: POP3(joe): open(/var/mail/joe) failed:
Permission denied (euid=1005 egid=1005)


I don't see how, when it's clearly getting the correct home directory
from
checkpassword, that it would then try the default mail directory.

(mail_location is commented out, version 1.1.1)

Here's the entire auth clause:

auth default {
  mechanisms = plain login

  passdb checkpassword {
    args = /usr/local/sbin/checkpassword 
  }
  userdb prefetch {
  }
  user = mailman # 1005,1005
  socket listen {
    master {
      mode = 0666
    }
    client {
      path = /var/run/dovecot/auth
      mode = 0660
      user = postfix
      group = postfix
    }
  }
}


Any suggestions? I'm probably just missing something obvious, not having 
messed with setting this up for 6 months.

Thanks,
Andy

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Andy Dills
Xecunet, Inc.
www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
---

Figured it out. For whatever reason, I didn't need to set the userdb_mail 
previously, but you definitely do now.

Thanks,
Andy

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Andy Dills wrote:
> 
> I'm helping a friend setup a small mailserver using dovecot, and
I'm
> finding a strange problem with checkpasswd that I haven't had on my 
> servers. 
> 
> How is the following debug output even possible?
> 
> Jul 25 12:12:20 company2 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER       5  
joe       home=/var/mail/joe.com/joe/Maildir/  uid=1005        gid=1005
> Jul 25 12:12:20 company2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joe>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Jul 25 12:12:20 company2 dovecot: POP3(joe): open(/var/mail/joe) failed:
Permission denied (euid=1005 egid=1005)
> 
> 
> I don't see how, when it's clearly getting the correct home
directory from
> checkpassword, that it would then try the default mail directory.
> 
> (mail_location is commented out, version 1.1.1)
> 
> Here's the entire auth clause:
> 
> auth default {
>   mechanisms = plain login
> 
>   passdb checkpassword {
>     args = /usr/local/sbin/checkpassword 
>   }
>   userdb prefetch {
>   }
>   user = mailman # 1005,1005
>   socket listen {
>     master {
>       mode = 0666
>     }
>     client {
>       path = /var/run/dovecot/auth
>       mode = 0660
>       user = postfix
>       group = postfix
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> Any suggestions? I'm probably just missing something obvious, not
having
> messed with setting this up for 6 months.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> ---
> Andy Dills
> Xecunet, Inc.
> www.xecu.net
> 301-682-9972
> ---
> 
---
Andy Dills
Xecunet, Inc.
www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
---

On 7/25/2008, Andy Dills (andy at xecu.net) wrote:
> Here's the entire auth clause:
full output of dovecot -n is always preferred...

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Best regards,

Charles