Permissions problem on new installation

[Cliff Hayes]

Please disregard.
selinux was blocking.

On 10/15/2014 2:10 PM, Cliff Hayes wrote:
> I am setting up a new mail server using imap only on Scientific Linux
> 6.5 and dovecot 2.0.9.  How do I fix this problem?
>
> I keep getting these errors regardless of permissions ... even up to 777.
>
> Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error:
> opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:
> /var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir, euid is not dir owner)
>
> Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error:
> opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:
> /var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir, euid is not dir owner)
>
> Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error:
> opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir/new) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:
> /var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir/new, euid is not dir owner)
>
> Oct 15 13:56:07 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error:
> opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir/new) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:
> /var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir/new, euid is not dir owner)
>
> Yet when i check, chayes is directory owner as follows (currently
> showing 760 but I've tried everything):
>
> drwx------. 3 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 chayes at domain.tld
>
> drwxrwx---. 6 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 13:55 Maildir
>
> drwxrw----. 2 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 cur
> -rw-------. 1 chayes mail  104 Oct 15 12:56 dovecot.index.log
> -rw-------. 1 chayes mail    0 Oct 15 12:56 dovecot.mailbox.log
> -rw-------. 1 chayes mail   51 Oct 15 12:56 dovecot-uidlist
> drwxrw----. 2 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 new
> -rw-------. 1 chayes mail    6 Oct 15 12:56 subscriptions
> drwxrw----. 2 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 tmp
>
> dovecot config:
>
> protocols = imap
> mail_access_groups=mail
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>
> Thanks in advance.
>