[Dovecot] protocols and privileges

[Timo Sirainen]

On 14.5.2013, at 16.41, andreas graeper <agraeper at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 1)
> protocols = pop3
> but when starting the service, output tells about imap. when mua fetches
> mails ~/mail/.imap/INDEX is created.

It should have originally been named .dovecot instead of .imap, but it's way too late to change now.

> 2)
> i have some users uid=500 .. 505. src in /var/mail/%u, owner is <user>.mail
> and home-directories /home/<user> - owner is <user>.users
> 
> when dovecot tries to create directory /home/<user>/mail then it tells for
> user xyz (uid = 502)
> 
> euid=502(xyz)  egid=100(users) missing +w permission /home/xyz , euid is
> not dir owner.
> 
> but /home/xyz is owned by xyz.users and mod = 0700     ( drwx------ )
> 
> same environment for uid = 501 works great !

Do you have multiple xyz users with different UID numbers? Check with ls -lnd /home/xyz

Other than that, maybe SELinux issue.