On Thu, 2026-04-02 at 12:56 +0200, Klaus Tachtler via dovecot wrote:

... Here is my directory structure with ownership and file permissions:

ls -lad /etc/dovecot/ssl/

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24 Feb 27 09:55 /etc/dovecot/ssl/

ls -l /etc/dovecot/ssl/

total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 204 Feb 27 09:55 certs drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116 Feb 27 09:55 private

Hi Klaus:

For completeness: What about directory permissions on /etc/dovecot (/etc and /). Just to confirm user dovecot has "x" on all parent dirs.

On Thu, 2026-04-02 at 12:56 +0200, Klaus Tachtler via dovecot wrote:

 ...
 Here is my directory structure with ownership and file permissions:
 ==================================================================
 # ls -lad /etc/dovecot/ssl/
 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24 Feb 27 09:55 /etc/dovecot/ssl/
 # ls -l /etc/dovecot/ssl/
 total 0
 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 204 Feb 27 09:55 certs
 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116 Feb 27 09:55 private

Hi Klaus: For completeness: What about directory permissions on /etc/dovecot (/etc and /). Just to confirm user dovecot has "x" on all parent dirs.