[Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:30 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote:
> >
> >> Is there an automatic solution to this?
> >>
> >> Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location:
> >> mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied
> >
> > You mean /home/popuser_evelina2 doesn't exist and Dovecot doesn't have
> > write permissions to /home? Choices would be:
> >
> > a) Create the directory automatically whenever you add new users
> > b) Give Dovecot write permissions to /home
> > c) If you're using PAM, use pam_mkhomedir
> >
> Actually the /home/popuser_evelina2 directory exists.  I had thought
> that we were making the directory.  It's just the mail subdirectory that
> is missing.

Then I guess your userdb isn't returning correct UID for the user.
You're using system users?

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