-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Rajesh M wrote:
in the dovecot log i see the following. Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: Effective uid=89, gid=89, home=/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: Quota root: name=ignore=Trash backend=maildir args= Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: Quota rule: root=ignore=Trash mailbox=? bytes=0 messages=0 Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: Quota grace: root=ignore=Trash bytes=0 (10%) Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location= Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: mdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/mdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: mdbox: couldn't find root dir Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: sdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/sdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: sdbox: couldn't find root dir Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: maildir: root exists (/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/Maildir) Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/Maildir, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/Maildir, alt= Apr 10 17:12:40 imap([email protected]): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=28 out=460 i would like to know what the following means -- specifically mdbox and sdbox #################### Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: mdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/mdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: mdbox: couldn't find root dir Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: sdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/sdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap([email protected]): Debug: sdbox: couldn't find root dir ####################
Your config does not specify, which mail storage the user is using. That's why Dovecot probes for various "signs", mdbox is the first and so on. Eventually it probes for Maildir and uses the user's mail dir as a Maildir storage.
- -- Steffen Kaiser
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