dovecot - Apr 2015 - Dovecot keeps creating info files in mail directory instead of home

I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now, and I'm really at
a
loss.

My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with
'doveadm user' verifies this:

# doveadm user user at domain
field   value
uid     1000
gid     1000
home    /var/domain/user
mail    maildir:/var/mail/user at domain

I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and even
deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each and
every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again
(dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory instead of
home.

I've even made sure just in case that the home directory is accessible to
all, and chmod 777, but nothing gets created there. And I dont get any
errors at all in the logs.

I'm on the latest version (2.2.16).

-jf

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On 04/ 1/15 10:12 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with
> 'doveadm user' verifies this:
>
> # doveadm user user at domain
> field   value
> uid     1000
> gid     1000
> home    /var/domain/user
> mail    maildir:/var/mail/user at domain
>
> I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and even
> deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each and
> every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again
> (dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory instead of
> home.
You forgot to post your config. But the following might help:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Oscar del Rio <delrio at mie.utoronto.ca>
wrote:
> On 04/ 1/15 10:12 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
>
>> My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with
>> 'doveadm user' verifies this:
>>
>> # doveadm user user at domain
>> field   value
>> uid     1000
>> gid     1000
>> home    /var/domain/user
>> mail    maildir:/var/mail/user at domain
>>
>> I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and
even
>> deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each
>> and
>> every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again
>> (dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory
instead
>> of
>> home.
>>
>
> You forgot to post your config. But the following might help:
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles
>
Thanks. So I guess I had read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
wrongly (specifically, the statement about the home directory being the
"mail user's private state directory"). I thought that state would
include
all of these files that I see in the maildir as well.

Thanks for the link to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles. So
that points out that the index files are stored by default in the maildir.

I'm having a hard time finding a similar statement for the control files,
though (includes dovecot-uidvalidity* ?).
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Control_files makes no
mention of this. I assume this is also the case?

Back to the home directory: so what sort of "state" is stored in the
home
directory exactly? Are all of the files that I see here in the maildir
either control files or index files?

-jf