Courier can't chdir to mail directory

[helzer]

Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 and followed:
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_users_and_domains_with_postfix_debian_etch

When the servers start, this is what I get:

ubuntu1 postfix/master[4447]: daemon started -- version 2.3.8, configuration /etc/postfix
ubuntu1 authdaemond: modules="authmysql", daemons=5
ubuntu1 authdaemond: Installing libauthmysql
ubuntu1 authdaemond: Installation complete: authmysql


The user gets authenticated OK from the MySQL database, but then, courier can't get to the mailbox:
ubuntu1 imapd: chdir onthegosystems.local/amir/: No such file or directory

How do I start to debug this?

Thanks,
Helzer

[falko]

What's the output of ls -la /home/vmail?

[helzer]

It's empty. I was thinking that there should be something there, created by courier, but there's nothing.

The directory (/home/vmail) does belong to user vmail (and group vmail).

Amir

[falko]

The ownerships are correct. Normally the directories/mailboxes should be created automatically... :confused:

[helzer]

I'm almost sure it's something I've done, but there's a slight possibility that there's something different in my setup causing the howto to go wrong. My Linux distro is Ubuntu 7.04 and not the original Debian.

How can I debug this?
Is there a way to create a more detailed log showing exactly what Courier is doing?

What I'm thinking is:
- It's trying to create the directories somewhere else than /home/vmail
- It's running as a different user and can't create directories in /home/vmail
- Some switch is missing and courier is simply not trying to create the directories at all.

But, I don't want to make brute force attempts until it just works. It would be very nice if I find the debug information and be able to understand what's going on there.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Helzer

[falko]

Please compare your configuration with the one from the tutorial. Maybe you made a typo somewhere.

[dylanhky]

I'm having the same problems too.

1.I had to manually create the maildir with maildirmake.

2. I tried sending email between users in the same domain, and setting the transport table to deliver locally. But whenever I send mail.... the mail is delivered to /home/vmail/xxxx.com instead of /home/vmail/xxxx.com/user1 .

[helzer]

I've got this working now on a production server, running the same Ubuntu. A technician set this up with postfix + dovecot. I'll go through the setup and see if there's something unique to Ubuntu that's set any different. Will let you know.

Amir

[dylanhky]

I've fix my problem, there was a typo as falko suggested in the sql query string in /etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf.

Problem solved for me..thanks a lot