imaplogin: chdir Maildir after "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix" tutorial

[sPENKMAN]

With much attention i walked trough the tutorial Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV) which is really well composed but i managed to screw something up.

After the completion of the tutorial i sended myself an e-mail with "echo welcome | mail user@domain.tld" so the Maildir would be created. The folder /home/vmail/domain.tld/user existed so that went perfectly.

The only problem i cannot solve is the error "imaplogin: chdir Maildir: No such file or directory", there is no difference in an IMAP or POP3 connection. The directory does exist and is owned by vmail:

hostname:/home/vmail# ls -la
drwx------  3 vmail vmail 4096 2006-09-11 22:44 domain.tld

hostname:/home/vmail# ls -la domain.tld/
drwx------  5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-09-11 22:44 user

hostname:/home/vmail# ls -la domain.tld/user/
drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-09-11 22:44 cur
-rwx------  1 vmail vmail   29 2006-09-12 21:36 maildirsize
drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-09-12 21:36 new
drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-09-12 21:36 tmp

hostname:/home/vmail# ls -la domain.tld/user/new/
-rwx------  1 vmail vmail  989 2006-09-11 22:44 1158007497.V801I80c1e3.hostname.workgroup

I have rechecked the tutorial on any /home/vmail entries and compared them with my own config files, but everything checks out:

/etc/postfix/main.cf

virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf
virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000

/etc/courier/authmysqlrc

MYSQL_LOGIN_FIELD       email

##NAME: MYSQL_HOME_FIELD:0
#

MYSQL_HOME_FIELD        "/home/vmail"

Sending an e-mail

postfix/pickup[14053]: 89FC59402A1: uid=0 from=<root>
postfix/cleanup[14065]: 89FC59402A1: message-id=<20060912202400.89FC59402A1@FQDN>
postfix/qmgr[14054]: 89FC59402A1: from=<root@FQDN>, size=273, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
postfix/smtpd[14069]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
postfix/smtpd[14069]: AB32A94029E: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
postfix/cleanup[14065]: AB32A94029E: message-id=<20060912202400.89FC59402A1@FQDN>
postfix/qmgr[14054]: AB32A94029E: from=<root@FQDN>, size=703, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
amavis[9649]: (09649-04) Passed, <root@FQDN> -> <user@domain.tld>, Message-ID: <20060912202400.89FC59402A1@FQDN>, Hits: -
postfix/smtp[14068]: 89FC59402A1: to=<user@domain.tld>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 Ok, id=09649-04, from MTA: 250 Ok: queued as AB32A94029E)
postfix/smtpd[14069]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
postfix/qmgr[14054]: 89FC59402A1: removed
postfix/virtual[14070]: AB32A94029E: to=<user@domain.tld>, relay=virtual, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
postfix/qmgr[14054]: AB32A94029E: removed

Trying to read my mail with IMAP

imaplogin: Connection, ip=[::ffff:<ipaddress>]
imaplogin: chdir Maildir: No such file or directory

I honestly don't have a clue where to look, do you?



@falko:
On page 2 the typo is still present:

Now we create a user and group called vmail with the home directory /home/vamil. This is where all mail boxes will be stored.