[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid xxx: Permission denied

[Nick Ortiz]

I've had this issue for sometime, I finally gave up and switched to 
Courier-Imap but I'm finding I hate data storage / structure so I 
decided to give dovecot another go but am still running into the same issue.

I had this working once upon a time and can not for the life of me 
figure it out.

Here's some basic info.

Dist: Gentoo 2005.1
Emerge Info: net-mail/dovecot-1.0_beta8  USE="ipv6 pam ssl -debug 
-kerberos -ldap -mbox -mysql* -pop3d -postgres -vpopmail"

Permissions for /home: drwxr-x--x
Owner for /home: root
Permissions for /home/*: drwxr-xr-x
Owner for /home/*: username:username

dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   1       
PLAIN   service=IMAP    secured lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx      rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT  1
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden>
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client out: OK    1       
user=xxxx
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid 502: 
Permission denied
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST        
2       4464    1
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): master out: USER  2       
xxxx   system_user=xxxx       uid=502 gid=506 home=/home/xxxx
ovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<xxxx>, 
method=plain, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS
dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Error: child 4488 (imap) returned error 89

Only real resolution I can find refers to SELinux which I do not have 
installed.

I can provide my dovecot.conf if needed.