Re: Scripting Problem

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 01:25:25PM +0100, Ulrich Wisser via isync-devel wrote:
>I do get a return value of 1 all the time. The only error I can see in 
>the logs is, isync tries to access  /root/Maildir/.mbsyncstate although 
>it runs as user abc.
>
>Any ideas or hints are welcome! What am I doing wrong?
>
it seems plausible that cron doesn't set up $HOME correctly when 
changing the user.

>My configuration looks like
>
>    SyncState /mail/.mbsync/
>
not being localized to any user, that isn't a very sensible setting. but 
you're overriding it below anyway.

>    IMAPAccount ulrich
>    Host mail.xxxx.xx
>    User ul...@xx...
>    Pass xxxxxxxxxx
>    AuthMechs LOGIN
>    SSLType IMAPS
>    PipelineDepth 50
>
>    IMAPStore ulrich_mox
>    Account ulrich
>
>    MaildirStore ulrich_local
>    Path /mail/ulrich/

>    #Inbox /mail/ulrich/Inbox/
>
that one should have no trailing slash.
the fact that it's commented out is likely the reason why the incorrect 
$HOME is being referenced.

>    SubFolders Verbatim
>
>    Channel mox
>    Master :ulrich_mox:
>    Slave :ulrich_local:
>    Patterns *
>    Create Slave
>    Remove Slave
>    Expunge Slave
>    SyncState *
>    Sync Pull
>
>