2.2.18 initial setup permissions problem

[Forrest]

On 10/26/15 5:30 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Forrest wrote:
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>> I'm using Dovecot 2.2.18, compiled from source, on CentOS 6.
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>> I'm running into a permissions problem with my first rollout of 
>> Dovecot which has to do with directory permissions:
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>> Oct 23 14:34:51 mail dovecot: imap(username): Error: 
>> stat(/home/username/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied 
>> (euid=596(<unknown>) egid=97(dovecot) missing +x perm:
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> /home/username/Maildir, dir owned by 500:500 mode=0700)
>                                       ^^^^^^^
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> you have configured your user or Dovecot to use uid 596, but the 
> user's Maildir is owned by uid 500 .
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>> I can't seem to figure this one out.  Can someone point me in the 
>> right direction.
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Interesting, in our setup at work, the Maildir is owned by the user, not 
dovecot.  So why does that work and the above does not?   Is it a setting?

I can grep through the configs -- just not sure what to look for here.  
I didn't see anything in the dovecot.conf, though.


Thanks.