[Dovecot] permission denied, no logs

[Ken A]

On 4/19/2010 11:30 AM, Shane Brooks wrote:
> Hi,
> We have a sendmail/dovecot/squirrelmail installation that was working ok
> except for deleted files showing in the list with a [d] beside it.  In
> trying to fix that issue, I apparently made a new error appear in the
> left navigation area:
> ERROR: Could not complete request.
> Query: CREATE "mail/Sent"
> Reason Given: [NOPERM] Permission denied

Dovecot is telling you that it doesn't have permission to create the 
"Sent" mailbox in ~username/mail/Sent
Check the permissions on those folders.

Ken

>
> There are no errors in dovecot, but from what i've read squirrelmail
> passes these folder requests to the imap server for processing.  Can
> anyone help me verify what my permissions should be?
> Here is my config:
> # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.24-19-xen x86_64 CentOS release 5.3 (Final)
> log_path: /var/log/dovecot/runtime.log
> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mail_uid: mail
> mail_gid: mail
> mail_location: mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> lda:
>    postmaster_address: postmaster at example.com
> auth default:
>    cache_size: 10
>    debug: yes
>    passdb:
>      driver: pam
>      args: cache_key=%u dovecot
>    userdb:
>      driver: passwd
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
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> Shane brooks
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