Apparent Maildir permission issue

[Bill Shirley]

I've gotten errors like this when it was actually a selinux denial. If you're running
selinux, check those logs too.

Bill

On 1/16/2017 4:09 PM, Mark Foley wrote:
> More info ...
>
> This is the only user having this permission problem. All other Thunderbird/dovecot users are
> getting mail file. They all have the same permissions set on their Maildir folder.
>
> --Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Foley <mfoley at ohprs.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:21:31 -0500
> Organization: Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Apparent Maildir permission issue
>
> I've just upgraded from Slackware 14.1 to 14.2. I've not done anything with dovecot -- it's the
> same version that was running before the upgrade. However, now I'm getting a permission error:
>
> /var/log/maillog:
>
> Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: opendir(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +r perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark))
> Jan 16 13:09:44 mail last message repeated 4 times
> Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: stat(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/.Trash) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +x perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark))
> Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: stat(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +x perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark))
> Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: opendir(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +r perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark))
> Jan 16 13:09:45 mail last message repeated 11 times
>
> Permission on that folder are:
>
> $ ls -ld /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir
> drwx------ 17 HPRS\mark domusers 4096 Dec  7 23:07 /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/
>
> Permissions are unchanged since before the backup.
>
> What do I do to fix this?
>
> THX --Mark