[Dovecot] Strange permission problem with Maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On 14.1.2010, at 23.23, tkin1t3asy wrote:

> POP3(username): stat(/home/username/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=500(username) egid=500(username) missing +x perm:
> /home/username/Maildir)
..
> as you can see below the permissions are correct:
> 
> root at host:/home/username# ls -al Maildir/
> total 744
> drwx------  8 username username    220 2010-01-13 06:27 .

a) Multiple uids use the same uid. Check with ls -ln to be sure the uid really is 500 and not something else.

b) SELinux or something similar prevents the access because the directory has wrong label or something.

c) Some other filesystem ACL permission issue.