[Dovecot] chdir failed, but requires group permissions

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Apr 7 20:43:32 EEST 2007


On 7.4.2007, at 20.35, Brent Nesbitt wrote:

> However, it seems odd to me that Dovecot would REQUIRE access to  
> the $HOME directory, when I am only using it to pop mail from /var/ 
> mail (which it has full access to) - and I am not using imap access  
> at all.

Well, you don't HAVE to give Dovecot any home directory at all. See  
the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox

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