[Dovecot] Dovecot cannot unlink non-empty directory

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 16 00:09:40 EEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:53 +0200, Włodek Waligórski wrote:
> Timo Sirainen pisze:
> > a) You're returning a home directory where the user doesn't have read
> > access.
> 
> That's the case. To be exact the mail delivery/retrieval user (vpopmail)
> doesn't have the read access to user's home directory.
> 
> Why does dovecot need this access? Shouldn't access to ~/Maildir suffice?

Home directory can be used for several different things.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs

If you don't have a readable home directory, you might as well not
return any so Dovecot doesn't try to use it.

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