[Dovecot] /var/dovecot /var/spool/mail permissions, setup help (w/ config info)
Jeff Kowalczyk
jtk at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 8 01:10:16 EEST 2006
Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
Any idea on these issues? I have a once-per-week window to migrate this
mailserver, and I hoped to do it this weekend. Thanks if anyone spots the
trouble. (FWIW, I don't think the missing .subscriptions file is the
hold-up in this case. The permissions errors happen elsewhere)
> (repost gmane message as list member)
>
> I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one
> Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over
> from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8.
>
> Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate
> everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be added,
> unless someone can recommend a 'dovecot of smtp' to use.
>
> I'll tail the mail.log to illustrate the problem, then excerpt what I think are
> the relevant directory and config file listings. I'm paying particular
> attention to file ownership, but am loathe to just chown dovecot things unless
> I know why.
>
> Let me know if you want to see any other config info to help spot the problem.
> Thanks!
>
> # tail -n 30 /var/log/mail.log
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:35:25 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN
> service=IMAP lip=123.456.789.012 rip=098.765.432.109
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1
> AGplZmYua293YWxjenlrAHdvcmRwYXNzMQ==
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1
> user=namefirst.namelast
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1
> 25692 1
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1
> namefirst.namelast system_user=namefirst.namelast uid=501 gid=12
> home=/home/namefirst.namelast
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: stat(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast) failed:
> No such file or directory
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Effective uid=501,
> gid=12
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox:
> data=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast:INDEX=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: INBOX defaulted
> to /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox:
> root=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast, index=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast,
> inbox=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<namefirst.namelast>,
> method=plain, rip=098.765.432.109, lip=123.456.789.012
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open() failed with
> subscription file /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/.subscriptions: Not a
> directory
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast):
> open(/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast):
> mkdir_parents(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission
> denied
> dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:14 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Disconnected: Logged
> out
>
>
> # ls -al /var/spool/mail
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1472 Jul 2 19:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 168 Jul 3 14:19 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 18:46 .keep
> -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 36243879 Jul 1 17:52
> namefirst.namelast
> (...)
>
>
> # ls -al /var/dovecot/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jul 5 10:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 Jun 29 09:45 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 10:30 .keep
>
>
> # ls -al /var/run/dovecot/
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 176 Jul 5 18:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 504 Jul 3 14:45 ..
> srw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 auth-worker.25687
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 dict-server
> drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 136 Jul 5 18:35 login
> -rw------- 1 root root 6 Jul 5 18:35 master.pid
>
>
> # ls -al /home/namefirst.namelast/
> total 17791
> drwxr-xr-x 2 namefirst.namelast mail 248 Jul 5 18:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 76 root root 2512 Jul 2 20:21 ..
> -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 3293785 Sep 23 2005 Sent
>
>
> # grep dovecot /etc/group
> dovecot:x:97:
>
>
> # grep dovecot /etc/passwd
> dovecot:x:97:97:added by portage for dovecot:/dev/null:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
>
> # grep mail /etc/passwd
> mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
> postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
>
>
> # grep mail /etc/group
> mail::12:mail
>
>
> # grep namefirst.namelast /etc/passwd
> namefirst.namelast:x:501:12:First Last:/home/namefirst.namelast:/bin/bash
>
>
> # cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot
> auth required pam_unix.so
> account required pam_unix.so
>
>
> # cat /etc/dovecot.conf
> base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
> protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> listen = *
> shutdown_clients = yes
> log_path = /var/log/mail.log
> info_log_path = /var/log/mail.log
> log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S "
> syslog_facility = mail
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> ssl_disable = no
> ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
> login_chroot = yes
> login_user = dovecot
> default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u
> mail_extra_groups = mail
> mail_debug = yes
> protocol pop3 {
> pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
> }
> auth_verbose = yes
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_debug_passwords = yes
> auth default {
> mechanisms = plain login
> passdb pam {
> args = dovecot
> }
> userdb passwd {
> }
> user = root
> }
>
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