[Dovecot] Error on mailbox file

augustocasagrande at gmail.com augustocasagrande at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 21:47:58 EEST 2010


Ok, thanks i'll check it and i will let you know.

Now , what about the other problem?

[quote]
Sep 29 10:50:43 host1 postfix/local[19663]: 50B98441E0:  
to=<user at domain.com>, orig_to=<user at domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0,  
status=bounced (cannot access mailbox /var/mail/user for user user. cannot  
open file: Permission denied)

Here some user tries to send an email to this user , and a permission  
denied error occurs.

Watching the permissions on the file :
-rw------- 1 user users 1499655 2010-09-29 02:18 /var/mail/user

Maybe some Dovecot process is blocking the file access ?
[/quote]

It's related to the nss lookup?

thanks !

El 01/10/2010 14:23, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> escribió:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:56 +0000, augustocasagrande at gmail.com wrote:



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



> So it uses ~/ and %u here..



> > passdb:

> > driver: pam

> > userdb:

> > driver: passwd



> So home should be taken from NSS lookup..



> > > > mkdir(/home/NT-DOMAIN/user/mail) failed: Permission denied



> This means the NSS lookup returned /home/NT-DOMAIN/user as the user's

> home directory.



> Are the users normally logging in as "user" or "NT-DOMAIN/user"? What

> does it log with auth_debug=yes?



> Anyway, this looks more like a configuration problem on your pam and

> passwd (=NSS) side.





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