Also, you can use first_valid_uid = <number>
last_valid_uid = <number> to limit which users are considered valid. Aki On 17.2.2020 12.50, Sami Ketola wrote: > Hi, > > how about switching to use autoexpunge? > > https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings > > Sami > > >> On 17 Feb 2020, at 11.01, Philip Colmer <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> We're using dovecot on a help desk ticketing system. The system >> doesn't perform any cleanup of IMAP mailboxes so we have a regular >> cronjob doing this: >> >> /usr/bin/doveadm flags add -A '\Deleted' SEEN SENTBEFORE 12w && >> /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -A DELETED MAILBOX '*' >> >> Recently, doveadm has been reporting this: >> >> doveadm(nobody): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': >> mkdir(/nonexistent/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) >> egid=65534(nogroup)) >> doveadm(nobody): Error: User init failed >> doveadm(DEFAULT-CW-USER): Info: User no longer exists, skipping >> >> Indeed, using >> >> doveadm user "*" >> >> does include "nobody" in the list but I can't understand why. The mail >> group in /etc/group does not include "nobody" and there are users in >> /etc/passwd with similar attributes to "nobody" that do not appear in >> the list of users from doveadm. >> >> What can I do to tell doveadm to forget about "nobody"? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Philip >
