[Dovecot] Help, problems with permissions

[Charlie Brady]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Simon Windsor wrote:

> The error message I am getting is
> 
> Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw at orion-w-t.co.uk): lstat
> (/home/dovecot/users/orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw/cur) failed: Permission
> denied
> Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw at orion-w-t.co.uk): Couldn't open
> INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information.
> [2005-02-14 03:03:57]
> 
> The file permissions are
> 
> 
> drwx------  2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 13 23:24 cur
> drwx------  2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 14 02:53 new
> drwx------  2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 14 02:53 tmp
> 
> The UID/GID I am using is 1001, and the orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw
> directories are owned by that uid/gid.
> 
> Can anyone provide advice on what I have to do to get POP, and
> eventually IMAP working?

You'll need to have your pop3 daemon running as uid dovecot.

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Charlie