I am setting up a new mail server using imap only on Scientific Linux 6.5 and dovecot 2.0.9. How do I fix this problem?
I keep getting these errors regardless of permissions ... even up to 777.
Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes@domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm: /var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir, euid is not dir owner)
Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes@domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm: /var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir, euid is not dir owner)
Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes@domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir/new) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm: /var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir/new, euid is not dir owner)
Oct 15 13:56:07 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes@domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir/new) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm: /var/email/chayes@domain.tld/Maildir/new, euid is not dir owner)
Yet when i check, chayes is directory owner as follows (currently showing 760 but I've tried everything):
drwx------. 3 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 chayes@domain.tld
drwxrwx---. 6 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 13:55 Maildir
drwxrw----. 2 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 cur -rw-------. 1 chayes mail 104 Oct 15 12:56 dovecot.index.log -rw-------. 1 chayes mail 0 Oct 15 12:56 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw-------. 1 chayes mail 51 Oct 15 12:56 dovecot-uidlist drwxrw----. 2 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 new -rw-------. 1 chayes mail 6 Oct 15 12:56 subscriptions drwxrw----. 2 chayes mail 4096 Oct 15 12:56 tmp
dovecot config:
protocols = imap mail_access_groups=mail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
Thanks in advance.