Quoting Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi:
On October 26, 2017 at 5:53 PM trash@skrilnetz.net wrote:
Quoting Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi:
On October 26, 2017 at 5:40 PM trash@skrilnetz.net wrote:
Quoting Steffen Kaiser skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, trash@skrilnetz.net wrote:
/dovecot: lda(www-data): Error: user www-data: Initialization failed: Namespace '': MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL) failed: Permission denied (euid=33(www-data) egid=33(www-data) missing +w perm: /var/www, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755//) /
I did some troubleshooting and I don't understand where the MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL) is coming from. Mailboxes are in /var/mail and
^^ /var/mail contains the INBOX only
sending/receiving emails is working as it always did.
mail_location is still setup to be MAIL_LOCATION = MBOX:~/MAIL:INBOX=/VAR/MAIL/%U
Everything else is in ~/MAIL (why uppercase?)
Why is it trying a mkdir in /var/www?
Because most likely /var/www is the home directory of www-data and you've configured to use $HOME/MAIL as base directory, which is /var/www/mail
- -- Steffen Kaiser
I don't know where the uppercase is coming from. In the email I've sent its lower case.
How can I fix that without changing permissions of /var/www? Where is $HOME/MAIL configured? Why do I get this error now for the first time, when there was no change to the system configuration?
Probably someone attempted to send email via a crappy script and it's now trying to deliver to www-data.
first_valid_uid = 1001 last_valid_uid = 1001
also, doveconf -n would be useful. Aki
Here is doveconf -n: https://pastebin.com/raw/s6cKwHGc
Home directory is provided by passwd userdb when present in passwd
file. to override it, useuserdb { driver = passwd override_fields = home=/var/mail/%Lu } Aki
Thanks for the quick replies.
I've checked, and the user database information is stored in
/home/user/mail/ for every user.
That works as expected without changing anything. I have still the
same question…
Why is it trying to write to /var/www when the mailbox is in
/var/mail/ and the user data in /home/user/mail/?