On 3/20/2012 1:29 PM, Mark Jeghers wrote:
All,
Below is my config. When I run dovecot from xinetd, I get these errors in the log:
Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=11624, secured Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Effective uid=500, gid=100, home=/home/mark Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/mailpop3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mailpop3/mark Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-03-20 11:13:39] Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
...it acts as if it has no file permission, but it seems like it certainly should. Here is the files it is trying to access:
[root@t4pserver2 ~]# ls -al /var/spool/mailpop3/ total 248656 drwxrwxrwx. 3 mail mail 4096 Mar 20 00:31 . drwxr-xr-x. 17 root root 4096 Mar 18 18:22 .. -rw-rw-r--. 1 ann users 58739 Mar 17 04:26 ann -rw-rw-r--. 1 annphone users 2708345 Mar 17 05:22 annphone -rw-rw-r--. 1 mail users 127272960 Mar 18 18:28 backups.tar -rw-rw-r--. 1 crimsonblues users 327563 Dec 3 14:38 crimsonblues drwxrwxrwx. 3 mark users 4096 Mar 20 00:31 .imap -rw-rw-r--. 1 mark users 0 Mar 18 13:09 mark -rw-rw-r--. 1 markphone users 124147068 Mar 18 04:21 markphone -rw-rw-r--. 1 nathan users 5119 Dec 22 18:52 nathan -rw-rw-r--. 1 root users 0 Mar 18 13:13 root -rw-rw-r--. 1 testuser users 58739 Mar 18 18:42 testuser -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim users 16212 Mar 18 15:51 tim
The group owner of these files is "users". Should probably be "mail". E.g.
$ ls -la /var/spool/mail/ total 724K drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4.0K Jan 19 01:16 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Jun 2 2011 .. -rw------- 1 stan mail 707K Mar 20 21:32 stan
Ownership of /var/spool/mailpop3 should probably be root:mail instead of mail:mail. And given that 'mail' is a standard group name, it's probably not wise to have an actual user named 'mail', as you've done here.
-- Stan