[Dovecot] chdir failed: Permission denied

[Joe Sislow]

Hi there,

Upgrading to Fedora Core 4 from an old server running Red Hat 7.3. I'm
moving accounts over by hand, and I'm having the following error crop up for
*everyone*.

chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid 500: Permission denied

Now, that UID is correct, the user has that access, and there are no
permissions problems changing to that directory. I've got the mail in
/var/mail/XXX for each user as a simple mbox.

I was browsing through the code to check for what *exactly* dovecot is doing
when it's trying to change directory there. The error reporting is a bit
spotty. It could be that it can't change to that directory (unlikely). It
could be that something in that path is a problem (also unlikely, as the
/home directory is world readable and executable), or, it could have
something to do with a file or directory it's trying to create. I'm not
sure. Could someone let me in on what files or directories that dovecot
tries to create by default? This permission denied error doesn't make any
sense (I created a brand new user with nothing there, made all of his
directories readable/writeable, and executable by EVERYONE, and it STILL
gives me this error.
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