[Dovecot] Permission denied on dovecot.lda-dupes

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13.8.2012, at 18.18, ppridt wrote:
> Hi,
> I have converted my Imap Server from Courier to Dovecot in order to use
> sieve support.
> Everything works fine with the exception that the sender always gets the
> vacation msg since there is a permission error on writing of
> dovecot.lda-dupes.
..
> Aug 13 14:51:26 Srv dovecot: deliver(pp): Home dir not found: 

The dupe file is written to home dir, but you have no home dir.

> file_dotlock_create(/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: Permission denied

So it's trying to write to the root directory.

But I find these messages strange. They shouldn't happen at least newer Dovecots. What version are you using?