[Dovecot] Maildir premission denied

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Sat Sep 18 17:11:52 EEST 2010


On 9/17/2010 2:35 PM, Omer Ahmed wrote:
> Hi Sirs,I am using ubuntu OS, with dovecot and postfix, I can send emails receive email but not access them. I have the errorSep 17 21:21:31 myserver-name dovecot: POP3(virtualuser at mydomain.tld): stat(/var/mail/virtualuser at mydomain.tld) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(upload) egid=1001(upload) missing +x permI don't know why it is using euid 1001, my var/mail folder uid:gid is 500:500and here are my settings:# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf# OS: Linux 2.6.31-14-server x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10 ext3log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%Sprotocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3sdisable_plaintext_auth: nologin_dir: /var/run/dovecot/loginlogin_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-loginlogin_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-loginlogin_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-loginmail_privileged_group: mailmail_uid: 500mail_gid: 500mail_location: Maildir:/var/mail/%umail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imapmail_executable(imap):
>   /usr/lib/dovecot/imapmail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imapmail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imapmail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3auth default:  passdb:    driver: pam  passdb:    driver: sql    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf  userdb:    driver: passwd  userdb:    driver: sql    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> Waiting for ur life saving replies

You would dramatically increase your chances for help if you would 
properly format your email. Sending everything on one never ending 
unwrapped line is NOT the way to do it.


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