[courier-users] Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
Hi All, I am trying to adapt a tutorial for setting a mail server in Arch Linux [1] to Debian. I completed up to the step of PostfixAdmin, and I perfectly can send e-mails from it and add users and domains to the database. Looking at /home/vmail, I also checked that I can receive e-mails. Before

Re: [courier-users] Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
2012/1/9 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com:                    In the setup I'm trying, this hierarchy hangs from /home/vmail/user@domain/ . Actually, postfix creates this architecture of folders when I set-up a mail user and send an e-mail to it. According to the config files, Courier

Re: [courier-users] Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 09/Jan/12 11:38, Sergi Pons Freixes wrote: From what I understand from the documentation, a maildir is actually a hierachy of subfolders (./new, ./cur, ./tmp, etc), which is usually located at /home/user/Maildir. Yes, Maildir is the default mail directory, in a user's home. You may want

Re: [courier-users] Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sergi Pons Freixes writes: # This is an optional field, and can be used to specify an arbitrary # location of the maildir for the account, which normally defaults to # $HOME/Maildir (where $HOME is read from MYSQL_HOME_FIELD). # # You still need to provide a MYSQL_HOME_FIELD, even if you

Re: [courier-users] Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
2012/1/9 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com: Sergi Pons Freixes writes: #  MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD    maildir I see an extra leading space there. Uh, I was not expecting the extra space between MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD and maildir could cause problems... I'll try it (and the recommendations of

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2012-01-09 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, I have switched my Linode from Ubuntu Natty, in which multiple things were just mysteriously breaking, to Arch Linux. I have copied my courier-mta configuration from the Ubuntu set-up in and made the adjustments that seemed obvious. There is one that is not obvious. I'm getting a

Re: [courier-users] Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
2012/1/9 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com: Sergi Pons Freixes writes:  MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD    maildir I see an extra leading space there. I am checking the files, and it is a tab, not several spaces, so it shouldn't be a problem.

[courier-users] [SOLVED] Re: Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
Ok, I finally found what was wrong. MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD must be the full path to the maildir, not the relative path according to MYSQL_HOME_FIELD. So, instead of MYSQL_HOME_FIELD /home/vmail MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD mail It must be: MYSQL_HOME_FIELD /home/vmail MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD

Re: [courier-users] [SOLVED] Re: Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

2012-01-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/09/2012 01:59 PM, Sergi Pons Freixes wrote: MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD must be the full path to the maildir, not the relative path according to MYSQL_HOME_FIELD. Typically, the best configuration is for MYSQL_HOME_FIELD to refer to the name of a field that contains a path to a directory owned

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2012-01-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
David Benfell writes: « HTML content follows » Hello all, I have switched my Linode from Ubuntu Natty, in which multiple things were just mysteriously breaking, to Arch Linux. I have copied my courier-mta configuration from the Ubuntu set-up in and made the adjustments that seemed