[Bug 581718] Re: dovecot upgrade purposely breaks working configuration

[Lionel Dricot]

I'm using absolute path.

The problem is that the path was given by LDAP with :

user_attrs = mailbox=home (this is what is recommended in the
documentation)

It seems that, for whatever reason this string is passed directly to the
code and used as "home". But because it starts with "maildir:", it fails
the test "first character is /".

The workaround so far was to disable mailbox from ldap and use directly
mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/%u


I've seen a similar symptom on dovecot mailing list and the dev reply something like "this is wrong, remove the maildir:". It's really a pitty because a lot of usecases are now broken because of a poor implementation of one very specific test. The error message is also not really informative.

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dovecot upgrade purposely breaks working configuration
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581718
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