[Dovecot] dovecot permission problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 09:34 -0800, Calvin23 wrote:

> Feb 18 18:22:48 mail dovecot: imap(a): Error: open(/home/a/Maildir/cur/1298049758.V54Ie8f326M541264.mail:2,) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(<unknown>) egid=5000(<unknown>) missing +r perm: /home/a/Maildir/cur/1298049758.V54Ie8f326M541264.mail:2,, euid is not dir owner)

It says it doesn't have read permissions to that file. What permissions
does the file have?

My guess: You've told Dovecot to use UID 5000 for accessing mails, while
your mail deliveries use some other UID to write them. Make them the
same.