[Dovecot] Mail storage creation fails with virtual users

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 29 23:21:13 EET 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 16:18 -0500, Scott H. W. Snyder wrote:
> So I have recently set up dovecot with a virtual users dovecot.passdb  
> file, but when I attempt to telnet in, it fails because my virtual  
> users don't have proper permissions to create mailboxes.

Two possibilities:

a) Give it enough permissions (e.g. chmod 01777 /var/mail/folders)

b) Create the directories manually at the same time as creating new
users.
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