[Dovecot] Error messages in log

Timo Sirainen
2011-05-11T09:42:02Z

On 11.5.2011, at 6.35, Peter Bell wrote:

> However, I also get a lot of:
> lda(peter): Error: User peter doesn't have home dir set, disabling
duplicate database
> Is there a way to eliminate/supress these messages?  I'm operating with
virtual users, so checking for a home directory doesn't make a lot of sense.
Is there a setting in the .conf file which can control this?

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home

> Possibly more concerning is this message:
> May 10 23:31:23 imap(peter): Error:
link(/mnt/user/Maildir/peter/dovecot.index.log,
/mnt/user/Maildir/peter/dovecot.index.log.2) failed: Function not implemented

So apparently your fuse filesystem doesn't support link().

> I'm not sure exactly what I was doing at the time - probably
experimenting with Sieve filters.  Has this compromised my maildir?  I have
already disabled copy with hard links - is there another 'hardlink'
setting available?

Nope. I don't remember what all places uses link(), but looks like at least
copying .log to .log.2 file. It doesn't really matter if it fails though.