Hello, I am installing vpopmail together with dovecot. Mail must be delivered to /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<user>/Maildir, not by vdelivermail itself, but by dovecot-lda (to keep index files updated, among other things). So, I write a /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<user>/.qmail file, containing simply
| preline -f dovecot-lda as the dovecot instructions say. But it does not work: mail gets delivered to /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/Maildir - which is definitely not what I want if I have more than one user. :) I have investigated and found the source of the problem: when dovecot-lda is run, the virtual user's home directory, contained in the HOME environment variable, is not /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<user> as it should be. It is still /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>, the value it has when vdelivermail is executed. It makes sense to have HOME=/home/vpopmail/domains/<domain> when executing vdelivermail, because that's the correct home for the <domain>-<user>@<domain> virtual user from qmail-local's point of view. However, when vdelivermail processes a dot-qmail file itself in /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<user>, it knows what the right home for <user>@<domain> is, and should adjust HOME accordingly before running other programs in the qmail-command fashion. I am currently modifying HOME myself before executing into dovecot-lda, in the .qmail file, and it's working perfectly. However, it would be cleaner if vdelivermail did this itself. It would also be a lot cleaner if vdelivermail hid the <domain>-<user> thing under the rug: once qmail-send has been fooled and control has been given to vdelivermail, the virtualdomains hack is not necessary anymore, and is only confusing to software run in further .qmail files. For instance, a qreceipt instruction in a /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<user>/.qmail file currently has to be: | qreceipt $EXT@$HOST But it really should be | qreceipt $USER@$HOST like with system users. Also, specific workarounds have to be enabled to make ezmlm lists work under vpopmail; if vdelivermail was putting the right environment variables back, ezmlm would work out of the box. Please consider this change - along with a new, vpopmail-specific environment variable so vpopmail-aware applications still know that the address is virtual and really handled by vpopmail. Developer bait: with this change, vdelivermail wouldn't have to perform MDA duties itself anymore. If it found a user in the vpasswd database, it could just hand the delivery to qmail-local. :) Thank you, -- Laurent !DSPAM:5214c8b334256189513643!
