hello, is your dovecot supposed to act as a LDA ?
G'Day,
I am trying to find a definitive answer to what the directory permissions should be for my configuration under Centos 5.5. I see a number of the following error messages in the maillog as a consequence of permissions errors. After reading the FAQ, Wiki etc. and browsing the web I am unable to determine just exactly what the user security settings should be for the offending folders. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Should you require additional diagnostic information let me know and I will source it.
The error messages:
Jun 17 19:50:14 moe dovecot: POP3(carolyn.spyseebiz): mkdir_parents(/home/spyseebiz/homes/carolyn/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied Jun 17 19:53:09 moe dovecot: POP3(marnie.capitel): mkdir_parents(/home/capitel/homes/marnie/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied
dovecot -n
# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s listen: 116.212.71.194 ssl_listen: 116.212.71.194 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: #mbox/ location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox: yes hidden: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Maildir auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
ps aux | grep dovecot
root 3457 0.0 0.0 1880 508 ? Ss Jun13 0:20 /usr/sbin/dovecot root 5650 0.0 0.1 7952 1460 ? S 03:28 0:04 dovecot-auth dovecot 15591 0.0 0.1 4992 1760 ? S 19:26 0:00 imap-login dovecot 15598 0.0 0.1 4992 1752 ? S 19:26 0:00 imap-login dovecot 15627 0.0 0.1 4992 1508 ? S 19:26 0:00 imap-login dovecot 16596 0.0 0.1 4988 1748 ? S 19:45 0:00 pop3-login dovecot 16615 0.0 0.1 4988 1744 ? S 19:46 0:00 pop3-login dovecot 16720 0.2 0.1 4988 1500 ? S 19:47 0:00 pop3-login root 16726 0.0 0.0 4000 700 pts/0 S+ 19:48 0:00 grep dovecot