dovecot - May 2013 - dovecot 2.2.1: lmtp running in base_dir

Evening all,

I'm running into an issue with lmtp trying to store user mail in 
'base_dir' ( same as this ( 
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-January/056736.html )) however 
I'm just using PAM for auth. I've tried with chroot, without chroot and 
'chroot'ing lmtp directly in ' service lmtp {  } ' which just
lead to
lots more errors.

I've not included anything of the current config so far, as I don't know
what is needed here yet.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I can't spot it for the
life
of me. Can anyone offer any new ideas?


Many thanks

Andy R.

On 11.5.2013, at 2.58, Andy R <spinner at delphinidae.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm running into an issue with lmtp trying to store user mail in
'base_dir' ( same as this (
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-January/056736.html )) however I'm
just using PAM for auth. I've tried with chroot, without chroot and
'chroot'ing lmtp directly in ' service lmtp {  } ' which just
lead to lots more errors.
> 
> I've not included anything of the current config so far, as I don't
know what is needed here yet.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I can't spot it for
the life of me. Can anyone offer any new ideas?
You're using a relative path somewhere instead of an absolute path. Possibly
in your home dir or mail_location. mail_debug=yes is helpful (make sure all
paths begin with /).