[Dovecot] Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul

[Marius Stan]

Paul Ororke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to set up Exin and Dovecot and think I've almost 
> gotten there.  However I'm not recieving mail to my inbox and I get 
> messages like the following in /var/log/exim/main.log:
>
> 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 <= 
> users-return-105525-paul=paulororke.net at openoffice.org 
> <mailto:paulororke.net at openoffice.org> H=s002.sfo.collab.net 
> <http://s002.sfo.collab.net> (openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org>) 
> [64.125.133.202 <http://64.125.133.202>] P=smtp S=3120 
> id=200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com 
> <mailto:200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com>
> 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 == paul at paulororke.net 
> <mailto:paul at paulororke.net> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): 
> Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul

You have a problem with exim there, not with dovecot.

>
> How do I make it so that this doesn't happen?
>
Start by sharing with us your local_delivery transport and localuser 
router from exim.conf

Marius