On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 02:31 -0700, Tim Bessie wrote:
Hello all...
I've installed dovecot on my ISP's shell server, and am using SSH tunnelling so that I can retrieve my mbox-format mail from procmail-processed mailboxes on that server (normally I just ssh there and read them locally with pine, but now that I have a phone with an IMAP client, I wanted to be able to read it more easily there).
This sounds like you'd be doing imap-over-ssh by executing something like "ssh host libexec/dovecot/imap".
The problem I'm having is, although it's working, whenever dovecot starts up, or I try to log in, it attempts to chroot to /home/mydir/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/empty (where /home/mydir/dovecot is the path to my dovecot installation).
But imap wouldn't do any chrooting
Mar 19 02:09:43 master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.11 starting up (core dumps disabled)
or start up Dovecot master. So I guess you're not doing imap-over-ssh. (Or if you are, you don't need to be starting dovecot.)
Mar 19 02:09:44 anvil: Fatal: chroot(/home/mydir/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/empty) failed: Operation not permitted
service anvil { chroot = }