Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir( ) failed: Permission denied

9 Oct 2009


      On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Charles Marcus
CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com wrote:
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On 10/9/2009, Vallo Kallaste (kalts@estpak.ee) wrote:
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Dovecot fails to chdir() into users home directory giving the following error:
DC version / dovecot -n?
Uhm, I'm truly sorry:
M$ DC is NT4 with all the patches one can dig up.
# 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.16 i686 Linux (i586)
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir
lda:
postmaster_address: postmaster@some.where
mail_plugins: sieve
mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda
auth default:
verbose: yes
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
plugin:
sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_global_path: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve
sieve_dir: ~/.sieve
sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/
Vallo