[Dovecot] Permission lookup failed with imap

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 21:47 -0400, Alex wrote:

> I'm still trying to troubleshoot my problem with dovecot-2.0.11 and
> creating "mail/mail" directories for a reason unknown to me, so I
> enabled mail_debug. It's now printing this:
> 
> May 15 21:39:33 mail dovecot: imap(gdadmin): Debug: Namespace : Using
> permissions from /home/gdadmin/mail: mode=0755 gid=-1
> May 15 21:39:33 mail dovecot: imap(gdadmin): Debug: Namespace :
> Permission lookup failed from /home/gdadmin/mail/mail/INBOX.
> Trash
> 
> That file (INBOX.Trash) does exist at that location and is readable.
> It prints that line three times for each of INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Trash,
> and INBOX.Drafts.
> 
> Also notice that it is creating /home/user/mail/mail. My mail_location
> is set to "mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u", so I'm really
> confused.

Your client probably has set a "mail/" namespace prefix. Either remove
that or add a namespace to make both work:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces

Also I don't understand why you would have stuff like INBOX.Sent.
Usually it would be called just "Sent", i.e. /home/gdadmin/mail/Sent.