[Dovecot] Correct folder permissions for maildir....

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 6 19:17:35 EEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 +1000, Donovan J. Edye wrote:

> Jun 17 19:50:14 moe dovecot: POP3(carolyn.spyseebiz): 
> mkdir_parents(/home/spyseebiz/homes/carolyn/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: 
> Permission denied

Are these dirs owned by "carolyn"?

> Jun 17 19:53:09 moe dovecot: POP3(marnie.capitel): 
> mkdir_parents(/home/capitel/homes/marnie/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: 
> Permission denied

Are these dirs owned by "marnie"?

> mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Are /var/mail/* mode 0600?

My guess: If the dir owned are as expected, you have SELinux enabled and
it's preventing the accesses.



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