On 18.7.2010, at 21.28, Brandon Lamb wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> On 18.7.2010, at 19.57, Brandon Lamb wrote: >> >>> In my exim log i just see these >>> 2010-07-18 11:51:08 1OaYOJ-0003Vn-2P == bran...@olypen.com >>> R=router_pop T=dovecot_deliver defer (2): No such file or directory: >>> failed to chdir to maildir:~/maildir:INDEX=~/maildir/dovecot-index >> >> Actually, there is no such error message in Dovecot code. It's exim that >> logs this error.. > > Right but that means exim is talking to dovecot-lda because it is > getting the maildir:~/maildir value, no way exim could no that unless > dovecot told it. So then there SHOULD be a log in debug or deliver > from lda if exim got that showing *something* right?
Or is it possible that Exim looks up mail field as a home directory from the database? I think this error happens before dovecot-lda is even run (it's chdiring before running it).