Tried your config here and it works. My debug log looks as follows for
the first brief IMAP session:
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap-login: Login:
user=<diederik-jan>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=21949,
secured, session=<OtQjbweUvpIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: Added
userdb setting: plugin/=yes
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: Effective
uid=1001, gid=1001, home=/vmail//diederik-jan/home
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: Home dir
not found: /vmail//diederik-jan/home
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: Namespace
inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes,
subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/vmail//diederik-jan
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: maildir++:
root=/vmail//diederik-jan, index=, indexpvt=, control=,
inbox=/vmail//diederik-jan, alt=
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: Namespace :
/vmail//diederik-jan doesn't exist yet, using default permissions
Oct 3 22:28:56 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: Namespace :
Using permissions from /vmail//diederik-jan: mode=0700 gid=default
Oct 3 22:29:02 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Debug: INBOX:
Mailbox opened because: SELECT
Oct 3 22:29:04 drieka dovecot: imap(diederik-jan): Logged out in=31
out=747
Took me a few tries to get this working though. You need to configure
the permissions of /vmail correctly. Are you sure you're looking in
the correct log file for finding errors?
You can execute the following to find out:
$ sudo doveadm log find
Looking for log files from /var/log
Debug: /var/log/syslog
Debug: /var/log/mail.log
Info: /var/log/syslog
Info: /var/log/mail.info
Info: /var/log/mail.log
Warning: /var/log/mail.warn
Warning: /var/log/syslog
Warning: /var/log/mail.info
Warning: /var/log/mail.log
Error: /var/log/mail.warn
Error: /var/log/syslog
Error: /var/log/mail.info
Error: /var/log/mail.err
Error: /var/log/mail.log
Fatal: /var/log/mail.warn
Fatal: /var/log/syslog
Fatal: /var/log/mail.info
Fatal: /var/log/mail.err
Fatal: /var/log/mail.log
Thank you for your reply, Stephan.
But did it create the home directory in the new account's mail folder?
e.g. /vmail/domain/user/home?
Because this debug message is exactly similar to what I'm getting:
"Debug: Home dir not found: /vmail//diederik-jan/home"
I have thought that there could be a permissions problem, but dovecot is
able to create all directories inside the main folder except for that
"home" folder. I'm starting to think that maybe sieve is creating that
folder on the old server automatically.
My vmail dir (NFS share) is set to 750 (vmail:vmail), but all new
maildirs get created with 700.
Here's our log file output:
[root@triata4 ~]# doveadm log find
Looking for log files from /var/log
Debug: /var/log/dovecot-debug.log
Info: /var/log/dovecot-info.log
Warning: /var/log/maillog
Error: /var/log/maillog
Fatal: /var/log/maillog
Asai
