Re: [Dovecot] Ownership and permissions for the index directory/filesystem

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:27 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:

Nov 12 11:45:15 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(bpyi): open(/var/spool/mail/bpyi) failed: Permission denied (euid=2586(bpyi) egid=2000(bard2) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail)

It's trying to create bpyi user's INBOX that doesn't exist yet, but fails because it doesn't have write access to /var/spool/mail/ directory. Probably gets fixed by the time the user gets the first mail and your MTA creates the file.

Questions: directory ideal or should they be something else?

1. Are the ownership and permissions on the /var/dcindx index root

They're fine.

2. Ideally what should the ownership and permissions be for individual user subdirs? I create the user mail directories when creating a new account, so it would be little extra trouble to create and set the ownership and permissions.

0700, owned by the user.