[Dovecot] Permission denied after dist-upgrade

[Jan Behrend]

On 02/16/11 16:42, Thomas Skowron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after I have done a dist-upgrade to Squeeze, I got some nasty problem with my dovecot.
> When I try to establish a connection via IMAP, it doesn't react and writes the following into my logfile:
> 
> 2011-02-16 15:23:49 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<thomas at XXX>, method=PLAIN, rip=84.130.16.134, lip=XX.XXX.XX.XXX, TLS
> 2011-02-16 14:23:49 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/vmail/XXX/thomas/) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(<unknown>) egid=5000(<unknown>) stat() failed: No such file or directory)
> 2011-02-16 15:23:49 dovecot: Error: child 14493 (imap) returned error 89 (Fatal failure)

>    master:
>      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>      mode: 384
>      user: vmail

Hello,

I think your user "vmail" (uid=5000, gid=5000) got lost along the line
somewhere ....

Cheers Jan

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