[Dovecot] Several errors

[A. van Harten]

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I am not a guru. I am just a nerd who just
learned the basics of Linux.
Everyone says I have to install Dovecot - but no-one is willing to give
descent support...

"Mails shouldn't be owned by root". Fine, then I change "auth-user" in my
dovecot.conf from "root" to "vmail". I created a user called vmail, with
UID 1000. There is also a group, called vmail, and the GID is 1000. Then
what?? Some chown command? Or CHMOD? Made I a mistake on the commands I
wrote before?
Why do many people EXPECT that I am a guru? There are tutorials on the net
available, but no descent tutorials on Dovecot...

[QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE]
> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 13:38 +0200, FraNL wrote:
>> After a
>> chown root:root /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user
>> chmod 700 /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user
>
> Mails shouldn't be owned by root. You should probably pick out some user
> to use for your mails, such as "vmail" (and create it if it doesn't
> exist yet). Then configure your userdb to use it.
>
>> I get the following error in my log:
>>
>> Jul 25 13:32:19 dovecot: Fatal:
>> chdir(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user)
>> failed: Permission denied (euid=0(root) egid=1000 UNIX perms seem ok,
>> ACL
>> problem?)
>
> Looks like there was a bug in this logging code. euid wasn't root when
> chdir() was done. This patch fixes it:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/raw-rev/25650d7f6b85
>
>


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