Ivars Strazdiņš
2009-Jan-20 07:05 UTC
[Dovecot] "userdb didn't return a home directory" with v1.1.7
Hi all, I am running Dovecot v1.1.7 in a relatively quiet and calm environment. Suddenly overnight cron job started throwing out errors like: /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/lib/dovecot/expire-tool Error: userdb(user1 at mail.example) didn't return a home directory Error: userdb(user2 at mail.example) didn't return a home directory Indeed, running this command produces: ------------------------- $ sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/lib/dovecot/expire-tool --test Error: userdb(user1 at mail.example) didn't return a home directory Info: User lookup failed: user1 at mail.example Error: userdb(user2 at mail.example) didn't return a home directory Info: User lookup failed: user2 at mail.example ------------------------- Yet these mailboxes are valid, corresponding users can login, send and receive mail. Other mailboxes are OK, too. Where to to start looking? I found that similar error message with v1.1.6 is fixed in v1.1.7, but I am running v.1.1.7 already. Please see dovecot configuration attached. Thank you for your time, Ivars -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: conf.txt URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090120/516975d3/attachment-0002.txt>