[Dovecot] chdir failed, but requires group permissions

[Brent Nesbitt]

Thanks - I hadn't seen that before.  

If I'm understanding what you're getting at, you're referring to:

  Modify mail_location setting so that the mail root directory is also the empty directory and append :INDEX=MEMORY to it.
  For example: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY

Which unfortunately, doesn't work.  Even with these settings, or putting mbox, INBOX, INDEX all in /var/mail - dovecot still fails after successful authentication with an error that it can't chdir to the mail user's home directory; which, of course, it can't - but again, it shouldn't need to.


-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi]
Sent: Sat 4/7/2007 10:43 AM
To: Brent Nesbitt
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] chdir failed, but requires group permissions
 
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