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

Paul Ororke paulororke at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 19:27:37 EEST 2005


Thanks - I'll go to the Exim list.

On 9/28/05, Jakob Curdes <jc at info-systems.de> wrote:
>
> Well, as this is obviously a mail delivery question you should perhaps
> ask on the exim lists. I suppose the user under which the exim delivery
> agent is running has no permission to access ypur home dirs. I am not
> familiar with exim so I cannot give ypu further advice, but this problem
> is definitely not dovecot-related.
>
> Yours,
> Jakob Curdes
>
> > 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>
> > <http://s002.sfo.collab.net> (openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org> <
> http://openoffice.org>)
> > [64.125.133.202 <http://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
> >
> > How do I make it so that this doesn't happen?
> >
>
>
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