dovecot - Nov 2017 - home folder for virtual users with autoexpunge setting

Hi all,

 I have enabled today the autoexpunge setting for Trash folders, and I am
getting the following error when Dovecot starts:

 imap(<USER>): Error: autoexpunge: Couldn't create
dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: User has no home directory

 I understand this is correct: as <USER> is a virtual user, it does not
have home folder. Is there any way I can set the autoexpunge plugin to store the
lock file in the virtual user email home folder?

 Thank you!
 Felix

On 19.11.2017 10:57, felix at kngnt.org wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I have enabled today the autoexpunge setting for Trash folders, and I am
getting the following error when Dovecot starts:
>
>  imap(<USER>): Error: autoexpunge: Couldn't create
dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: User has no home directory
>
>  I understand this is correct: as <USER> is a virtual user, it does
not have home folder. Is there any way I can set the autoexpunge plugin to store
the lock file in the virtual user email home folder?
>
>  Thank you!
>  Felix
You need to set mail_home to something, return userdb_home from passdb,
or home from userdb. Even for virtual users.

Aki

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On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, felix at kngnt.org wrote:
> I understand this is correct: as <USER> is a virtual user, it does
not
> have home folder. Is there any way I can set the autoexpunge plugin to 
> store the lock file in the virtual user email home folder?
well, home folder in Dovecot != $HOME (or ~user), but user-specific 
besides the mail storage root folder:

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

Dovecot however uses ~ as abbrevation for "home directory".

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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Hi Steffen,

   Thank you very much for your answer, I did not know I was supposed to have
that home folder. I have moved everything on the folder  <user home
folder>/* to <user home folder>/mail. I have restarted dovecot and
nothing seems to be broken. However, I see I have the following files inside
<user home folder>/mail :

dovecot-acl-list
dovecot.list.index.log
dovecot.mailbox.log.2
dovecot.sieve.log
dovecot.svbin
dovecot-uidvalidity.51e5857f
sieve
storage
dovecot.list.index
dovecot.mailbox.log
dovecot.sieve
dovecot.sieve.log.0
dovecot-uidvalidity
mailboxes
spamassassin
subscriptions

Which ones should I move to <user home folder>/ ?

Thank you!
Felix

November 21, 2017 9:08 AM, "Steffen Kaiser" <skdovecot at
smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, felix at kngnt.org wrote:
> 
>> I understand this is correct: as <USER> is a virtual user, it
does not > have home folder. Is there
>> any way I can set the autoexpunge plugin to > store the lock file in
the virtual user email home
>> folder?
> 
> well, home folder in Dovecot != $HOME (or ~user), but user-specific besides
the mail storage root
> folder:
> 
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
> 
> Dovecot however uses ~ as abbrevation for "home directory".
> 
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, felix at kngnt.org wrote:
> dovecot-acl-list
> dovecot.list.index.log
> dovecot.mailbox.log.2
> dovecot-uidvalidity.51e5857f
> storage
> dovecot.list.index
> dovecot-uidvalidity
> dovecot.mailbox.log
> mailboxes
> subscriptions
>
> Which ones should I move to <user home folder>/ ?
these:
> dovecot.sieve.log
> dovecot.svbin
> sieve
> dovecot.sieve
> dovecot.sieve.log.0

I'm not sure about this one:
> spamassassin
This is probably used by an plugin or something like that, so it should go 
into home as well.
>
> Thank you!
> Felix
>
> November 21, 2017 9:08 AM, "Steffen Kaiser" <skdovecot at
smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>
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>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, felix at kngnt.org wrote:
>>
>>> I understand this is correct: as <USER> is a virtual user, it
does not > have home folder. Is there
>>> any way I can set the autoexpunge plugin to > store the lock
file in the virtual user email home
>>> folder?
>>
>> well, home folder in Dovecot != $HOME (or ~user), but user-specific
besides the mail storage root
>> folder:
>>
>> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
>>
>> Dovecot however uses ~ as abbrevation for "home directory".
>>
>> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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Steffen Kaiser
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