Dear Falko, First let me thank you for your incredible work with your tutorials. I've been following your documentations for years and they are far the bests among others I could find. So thank you very much! My problem is that I have set up a server using this tutorial: The Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND & Courier [ISPConfig 3] http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-squeeze-with-bind-and-courier-ispconfig-3 All steps done successfully. My pre-installed server has separate /var and /home partitions. I usually keep stuff (mails,webs,etc.) under /home, so I ordered the install with a large (1.5TB) /home partition and a relatively small(20GB) /var partition. Therefore, I need to change the maildir from /var/vmail to /home/vmail. EDIT: I have copied /var/vmail to /home/vmail to keep all previously created data. I have made the change in ISPConfig, but maildrop still tries to put mails to /var/vmail I was getting this error message when sent a test letter: maildrop[22912]: Unable to change to home directory. postfix/pipe[22911]: 30CDCC0067: to=<...>, relay=maildrop, delay=50958, delays=50958/0.03/0/0.07, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to change to home directory. ) I have searched the system for "/var/vmail" with "grep -r" and found that I have a postfix entry in main.cf that was something "like virtual_mailbox_mail = /var/vmail". I have changed it to /home/vmail, restarted postfix and all mail-related processes, but still no avail. Edit: I have changed /var/vmail to /var/vmail.bak to see what happens, and now it is saying: maildrop[4939]: Unable to create a dot-lock at /var/vmail/..... postfix/pipe[4933]: 30CDCC0067: to=<....>, relay=maildrop, delay=67707, delays=67707/0.09/0/0.05, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock at /var/vmail/...) EDIT: If I rename /var/vmail.bak back to /var/vmail then the mails are delivered correctly to /var/vmail but I of course cannot see them in a client, as courier search for them in /home/vmail (because it is set in ispconfig) Could you have any idea that can point me to the right direction? Thank you in advance! Have a great day! Marton
This is a permissions issue, maildrop is unable to write to that new path, check and fix the permissions.
Thank you for your answer, but I wouldn't think it is a permission issue. Permissions are set correctly afaik (vmail:vmail 755) The problem is that maildrop tries to deliver to the wrong place. If there is a /var/vmail folder mails are arrives there. However they should arrive to /home/vmail. I don't know where else I could set the delivery location. As I read by default it should deliver to the home directory of the user (vmail) Which is set to /home/vmail Thanks a lot! Marton
Solution found Took a while, but I finally solved it. The grep -r '/var/vmail' did not find the /home/vmail/.mailfilter file which contained the entries for /var/vmail. So if anyone else interested how to change the maildir location after completing this tutorial, I succeded to change /var/vmail to /home/vmail by following these steps: 1: Change maildir and homedir entries in ISPConfig: System -> Server config -> Mail page 2: Copy the vmail folder to the appropriate location: cp -a /var/vmail /home/vmail 3: Update vmail system user's home directory: usermod -d /home/vmail vmail 4: Set virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail in /etc/postfix/main.cf file 5: Update all /var/vmail entries to /home/vmail in /home/vmail/.mailfilter file 6: chown -R vmail:vmail /home/vmail 7: restart all mail services Make sure that the quota mount options in /etc/fstab are added to the correct drive/partition containing the new maildir folder. (I already did it during the initial setup) Cheers, Marton
