Permission denied

[Christian Kivalo]

On 2021-12-29 17:51, Ken Wright wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 18:34 +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> 
>> > On 29/12/2021 18:09 Ken Wright <daddywarlock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >  
>> > On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 09:51 +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On 29/12/2021 05:22 Ken Wright <daddywarlock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Any further information available upon request!
>> > >
>> > > Maybe systemd is blocking it?
>> > >
>> > > If systemd unit has ProtectSystem=strict or ProtectSystem=full,
>> > > try adding override.conf with
>> > >
>> > > [Service]
>> > > ReadWritePaths=/var/mail
>> >
>> > I checked /etc/systemd but I can't find anything with ProtectSystem
>> > uncommented.  Am I looking  in the wrong place?
>> 
>> Try
>> 
>> systemctl show dovecot | grep Protect
> 
> Okay, I did this, and ProtectSystem=full was there.  So I created
> override.conf in /etc/systemd as per the above and restarted Dovecot.
The override.conf goes to /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d/ to be 
included.
Issue systemctl daemon-reload before restarting dovecot.
systemctl cat dovecot.service shows you the content of the involved conf 
files
> No joy.  Evolution is still begging for a password and Dovecot is still
> rejecting it.  And yes, I've verified I'm using the correct  password.

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  Christian Kivalo