[Dovecot] newbie: can not authenticate using dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

I suggest you do as the wiki URL I gave explained. Create a non-writable empty directory with indexes disabled.

On 18.5.2011, at 11.36, nyoman.bogi at gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks for the advice Sir,
> 
> when I use the configuration "mail_location =
> mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u"
> and look at the Dovecot's log why it's rejecting my authentication :
> 
> May 18 09:26:29 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<bogi>, method=PLAIN,
> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> May 18 09:26:29 POP3(bogi): Error: mail_location: mbox:
> mkdir(/nonexistent/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=1005(bogi)
> egid=1005(bogi))
> May 18 09:26:29 POP3(bogi): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
> May 18 09:27:45 dovecot: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=82713 uid=0
> code=kill)
> 
> And Yes, I create all user with no home directory (/nonexistent) and no
> shell
> (basically all user will have only mail spool in /var/mail)
> 
> any suggestion to avoid this?
> 
> should I use a new directory i.e. /var/mail/dovecot with world writable to
> accommodate this?
> 
> thanks in advance