Re: [courier-users] maildrop dilemma

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

Petre Bandac writes:

> root@pwb:/BIG/maildirs/beria.kgb.ro/petre/new# authtest
> pe...@be... Authentication succeeded.
> 
>      Authenticated: pe...@be...  (uid 1004, gid 99)
>     Home Directory: /BIG/maildirs
>            Maildir: beria.kgb.ro/petre/
>              Quota: (none)
> Encrypted Password: $1$4d035da5$CWKOMP43QJCg31cuXqT.A/
> Cleartext Password: (none)
>            Options: (none)
> 
> and
> 
> maildrop -V9 -d pe...@be...
> maildrop: authlib: groupid=99
> maildrop: authlib: userid=1004
> maildrop: authlib: logname=pe...@be..., home=/BIG/maildirs,
> mail=beria.kgb.ro/petre/ maildrop: Changing to /BIG/maildirs
> test
> Message start at 0 bytes, envelope sender=pe...@be...
> Tokenized logfile
> Tokenized string: "/BIG/maildirs/maildrop.log"
> Tokenized ;
> Tokenized to
> Tokenized string: "${HOME}"
> Tokenized ;
> Tokenized eof
> /etc/maildroprc(1): Opening logfile /BIG/maildirs/maildrop.log
> maildrop: Delivering to /BIG/maildirs
> maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock.
> 
> 
> why doesn't maildrop follow the whole
> path /BIG/maildirs/beria.kgb.ro/petre/ ?

Because that's what you told it to do, in your mailfilter file.  You have:

to "${HOME}"

in your mailfilter file.  DUH.