[Dovecot] missing +r perm:L

[Max Dunlap]

Alright, I think I understand. By fixing the other side do you mean I
could add mail_uid=0 and mail_gid=0 in dovecot.conf? to match the
current mails permissions. We are migrating a server over and we ran
into this snag when transferring Maildirs over

On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 10:12 +0200, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 02:52:55PM -0500, Max Dunlap wrote:
> > The permissions are:
> > -rw------- 1 root root 7609 2011-07-05
> > 16:06 /home/dlambert/Maildir/cur/msg.COmK:2,ST
> > 
> 
> What's so difficult about this?
> 
> [ Log excerpt ]
> Jul  7 13:44:18 mail-breakaway dovecot: IMAP(dlambert): open(/home/dlambert/Maildir/cur/msg.COmK:2,ST) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=1002(dlambert) egid=1002(dlambert) missing +r perm: /home/dlambert/Maildir/cur/msg.COmK:2,ST)
> 
> [ Conf excerpt ]
> auth default:
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
> 
> You are accessing the maildir structure using UID 1002 but the directory
> is owned by UID 1. Needs to be fixed on either side...
> 
> Please visit these links and have a look at the quote below:
> 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Passwd
> 
> [...] This uses the UID and GID fields from passwd, but home directory
> is overridden. Also the default mail_location setting is overridden. 
> 
> Thomas