[Dovecot] userdb maildir permission denied in 2.1.7

[Chris]

Sorry, there's another issue with this configuration, not in the part I
quoted. Please ignore this thread. If there are further questions, I'll
ask again.

- Chris

On 01/25/2014 05:28 PM, Chris wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm using version 2.1.7 which currently ships with debian stable.
> 
> I'd like to use
> 
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd-file
>   args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users
> 
>   default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail
>   override_fields =
> 
>   skip = never
> 
>   result_failure = continue
>   result_internalfail = continue
>   result_success = return-ok
> }
> 
> from [1].
> 
> The error message is:
> 
> Jan 25 14:02:03 post1 dovecot: lda(chris): Error: user chris:
> Initialization failed: Namespace '': stat(/home/vmail/chris/Maildir)
> failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(chris) egid=1000(chris) missing +x
> perm: /home/vmail/chris, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0700)
> 
> The skip and result_* commands aren't supported.
> 
> My users file:
> chris:{MD5-CRYPT}$1$3uC3URg......:::/home/vmail/chris/:/bin/false::
> 
> Dovecot should access the Maildir with vmail:vmail (1001:1001) and not
> chris:chris (1000:1000)!
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase
> 
>