At 12PM -0800 on 16/11/12 you (Thufir) wrote:
I ran dovecot -a and the blizzard of data seemed ok to my limited knowledge. Is there another log I should look into to trace this error down? <snip>
Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: user root: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: stat(/root/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.
You should not be attempting to deliver mail to root directly. Instead you should forward root's mail to a real user with /etc/aliases; postfix's local(8) will not allow you to deliver mail as root.
Ben