Permission denied UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Aug 31 05:45:38 UTC 2022


If you are running gocryptfs with Dovecot, you need to ensure that Dovecot has access to the files even when you are not logged in. Perhaps gocryptfs is blocking access to processes not originating from your session?

Aki

> On 31/08/2022 07:14 EEST Austin Witmer <austin96 at emypeople.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> No, I am manually mounting it when I start my server. I then start dovecot.
> 
> Austin Witmer
> 
> > On Aug 30, 2022, at 9:40 PM, peter at chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >>>>>> "Austin" == Austin Witmer <austin96 at emypeople.net> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > Austin> So, the location of my mail storage
> > Austin> (/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/%d/%n/) is a filesystem
> > Austin> mounted by gocryptfs. Do you think gocryptfs could be at fault
> > Austin> here?
> > 
> > Is it automounted?  I've seen issues where dovecot tries to access a
> > file before the mount has finished, giving a pmerssions denied error.
> > 
> > Peter C


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