On 25.10.2010, at 14.13, Alan Brown wrote:
Oct 25 12:36:34 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: user keh2: Initialization failed: Namespace '#mbox/': mkdir(/stage/mail/imap1/keh2/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=2291(keh2) egid=101(luci) missing +w perm: /stage/mail/imap1, euid is not dir owner)
Because the parent directory was rwxr-xr-x root.root
Right..
The problem is that for some reason dovecot then wedged and a lot of other stuff piled up behind it, causing people to complain their mail wasn't coming through. Load average climbed to over 100.
Creating the user directories freed things up...
So the problem is that if there's a misconfiguration, load goes up? I don't really know if there's much to do about this. I guess it could wait a second or so before disconnecting client to avoid it reconnecting back too fast..