Quoting Devin Rubia <dev...@thezone.net>:

Thank you! That's what I've been saying :)

----- s n i p ----- root@aurora# authtest turbo Authentication FAILED: Input/output error root@aurora# authtest turbo Authentication succeeded.

Authenticated: turbo (uid 1000, gid 1000) Home Directory: /var/mail/fredriksson/turbo/ Maildir: (none) Quota: (none) Encrypted Password: {SASL}tur...@BAYOUR.COM Cleartext Password: (none) Options: (none) ----- s n i p -----

Weird! First time it failed, the second it succeeded. And if I test a second/third user right after this, they succeed...

So authtest/courier knows that my Maildir is my homedir... Even weirder! :)

This is a Debian GNU/Linux box with Debian GNU/Linux packages so it's compiled to know about /etc/courier. Besides, if I create the _real_ homedirectory (/afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo) then it works, even if it's empty (but owned by me). So the LDAP_HOMEDIR is recognised and used correctly, just 'something else' is making it go to the original $HOME.

Oh, and just to make sure. The /var/mail/fredriksson/turbo/ IS owned by me and is a correct Maildir.

Just to make things easier, this is the top of my systemwide maildroprc (comments etc removed):

----- s n i p ----- SHELL="/bin/sh" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" SPAMC="/usr/bin/spamc" BOGOFILTER="/usr/bin/bogofilter"

UMASK="007"

LOGDIR="/var/log" logfile "$LOGDIR/maildrop.log"

import RECIPIENT import HOST import LOCAL import PWD

# Special circumstances for my mail setup. # Homedirectory is in AFS and not readable, # and maildirectory is './' (which means it # - qmail - will firsts chdir to the mail # directory and deliver there as a Maildir). HOME=$PWD DEFAULT=$PWD

# Show the environment #log "ID: " `id` log "ENV: " `env` log "PWD(1): " `/bin/pwd` log "PWD(2): $PWD" ----- s n i p -----

I tried to move the very last line here around (earler) to see if there was a problem with the 'HOME=$PWD' line, but it always said '/var/mail/fredriksson/turbo/'. And with out that, things get even worse!

With ^HOME and ^DEFAULT line commented out: ----- s n i p ----- ENV: HOSTNAME=aurora SIZE=931 DEFAULT=/var/mail/turbo
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail HOME=/afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo/
BOGOFILTER=/usr/bin/bogofilter LOCKREFRESH=15 LOGNAME=turbo LOCKSLEEP=5
LOCAL=turbo PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin SPAMC=/usr/bin/spamc FROM=turbo
LOGDIR=/var/log SHELL=/bin/sh HOST=bayour.com UMASK=007
PWD=/afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo MAILDIRQUOTA= LINES=20
LOCKTIMEOUT=60 RECIPIENT=tur...@bayour.com LOCKEXT=.lock PWD(1): /afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo PWD(2): /var/mail/fredriksson/turbo ----- s n i p -----

With them enabled: ----- s n i p ----- ENV: HOSTNAME=aurora SIZE=1229 DEFAULT=/var/mail/fredriksson/turbo
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail HOME=/var/mail/fredriksson/turbo
BOGOFILTER=/usr/bin/bogofilter LOCKREFRESH=15 LOGNAME=turbo LOCKSLEEP=5
LOCAL=turbo PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin SPAMC=/usr/bin/spamc FROM=turbo
LOGDIR=/var/log SHELL=/bin/sh HOST=bayour.com UMASK=007
PWD=/afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo MAILDIRQUOTA= LINES=25
LOCKTIMEOUT=60 RECIPIENT=tur...@bayour.com LOCKEXT=.lock PWD(1): /afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo PWD(2): /var/mail/fredriksson/turbo ----- s n i p -----

Previosly I only had the FIRST PWD log line, but I found some disreprancies between what it SHOULD be and what it WAS so I did two log lines.

As seen in the last log output, all is well. Nowhere is the homeDirectory value referenced, and in the first it IS, even though it shouldn't!

If I put the three log lines just before the import's and just after logfile, this is what I get:

----- s n i p ----- ENV: HOSTNAME=aurora SIZE=931 DEFAULT=/var/mail/turbo
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail HOME=/afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo/
BOGOFILTER=/usr/bin/bogofilter LOCKREFRESH=15 LOGNAME=turbo LOCKSLEEP=5
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin SPAMC=/usr/bin/spamc FROM=turbo
LOGDIR=/var/log SHELL=/bin/sh UMASK=007
PWD=/afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo MAILDIRQUOTA= LINES=20
LOCKTIMEOUT=60 LOCKEXT=.lock PWD(1): /afs/.bayour.com/user/fredriksson/turbo PWD(2): ----- s n i p -----

So.... ?