dovecot - Jun 2011 - User doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database

Hello all,

I have a strange message into the logs of dovecot, il says something like:

Jun 22 10:18:07 lda(claudio at domain.com): Error: User claudio at domain.com
doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database

But the mail arrives correctly, and no problems at all.

I have googled a little about, and i have found a post it says to put
mail_home and not home into the plugin part of the configuration, but
this is not my problem..

Here is my conf:

# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) ext3
auth_mechanisms = plain login
first_valid_gid = 51
first_valid_uid = 51
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-inf.log
last_valid_gid = 51
last_valid_uid = 51
log_path = /var/log/dovecot-err.log
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment mailbox date
namespace {
  hidden = no
  inbox = yes
  list = yes
  location   prefix = INBOX.
  subscriptions = yes
  type = private
}
passdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
  driver = sql
}
plugin {
  mail_home = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/
  quota = maildir:User quota
  quota_warning = storage=80%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 80
  quota_warning2 = storage=90%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90
  quota_warning3 = storage=99%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90
  sieve = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_storage = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/sieve
}
protocols = imap pop3 sieve
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
  unix_listener auth-master {
    mode = 0600
  }
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    group = nobody
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imap {
    address = 127.0.0.1
    port = 143
  }
  inet_listener imaps {
    address = *
    port = 993
  }
}
service managesieve-login {
  executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login
}
service managesieve {
  executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve
}
ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/SecureTrust_CA.pem
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
userdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
  driver = sql
}
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds   mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
}
protocol sieve {
  managesieve_max_line_length = 65536
  plugin {
    sieve = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve
    sieve_storage = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/sieve
  }
}
protocol pop3 {
  mail_plugins = quota
  pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v
}
protocol lda {
  auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
  log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log
  mail_plugins = quota sieve
  postmaster_address = postmaster at mediaservice.net
}

Any hint?

Cordially,

Claudio Prono.

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On 22/06/2011 10:24, Claudio Prono wrote:
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u
> mail_home = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/
Dovecot complains because mail_home should be -ne mail_location

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On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 10:24 +0200, Claudio Prono wrote:
> Jun 22 10:18:07 lda(claudio at domain.com): Error: User claudio at
domain.com
> doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database
> 
> But the mail arrives correctly, and no problems at all.
> 
> I have googled a little about, and i have found a post it says to put
> mail_home and not home into the plugin part of the configuration, but
> this is not my problem..
The old kludge was to use plugin { home }. The newer better way is to
set mail_home setting (outside plugin {}).

Home doesn't have to be different from mail dir, although it would be
better. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home