Apparent Maildir permission issue

[Mark Foley]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:51:48 -0500 Bill Shirley <bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org> wrote:
>
> I've gotten errors like this when it was actually a selinux denial. If you're running
> selinux, check those logs too.
>

OK, this is getting serious -- mail not getting delivered.

No, I am not running selinux. Here is the error I get in the maillog:

Jan 24 16:42:49 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))

Permission are:

$ ls -l /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/
total 200
drwx------ 2 HPRS\mark domusers 45056 Dec 19 08:13 cur/
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers   131 Jul  1  2016 dovecot-keywords
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers  5249 Dec  7 23:06 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers     8 Jul  7  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 HPRS\mark domusers     0 Jan 16  2015 dovecot-uidvalidity.54b9def3
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers  4080 Nov 27 23:28 dovecot.index
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers 88612 Dec  7 23:07 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers  8748 Dec  7 23:07 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers  2016 Jul  7  2016 dovecot.mailbox.log
drwx------ 2 HPRS\mark domusers 12288 Jan 13 12:10 new/
-rw------- 1 HPRS\mark domusers   137 Jul  7  2016 subscriptions
drwx------ 2 HPRS\mark domusers 12288 Jan 13 12:10 tmp/

Permission on the Maildir folder for another user who is NOT having this problem:

$ ls -l /home/HPRS/shay/Maildir/
total 88
drwx------ 2 HPRS\shay domusers 12288 Jan 24 15:50 cur/
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay domusers    41 Sep 13 11:59 dovecot-keywords
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay users     1442 Jan 24 15:48 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay domusers     8 Jan 18 15:13 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 HPRS\shay domusers     0 Jul 15  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity.5789a8ca
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay users     1408 Jan 20 08:18 dovecot.index
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay users    12928 Jan 24 15:50 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay users    20844 Jan 24 15:51 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay domusers  2856 Jan 18 15:13 dovecot.mailbox.log
drwx------ 2 HPRS\shay domusers  4096 Jan 24 15:48 new/
-rw------- 1 HPRS\shay users     2906 Jan 18 15:13 subscriptions
drwx------ 2 HPRS\shay domusers  4096 Jan 24 15:48 tmp/

You can see that the tmp/ folders for both users are set exactly the same, yet user 'mark' is
getting the permission error. mark's mail is not getting delivered; shay's mail is.

Why?

> 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
>