Re: Inexplicable missing permissions issue

On 19.09.2017 05:28, Nelson Crosby wrote:

Greetings all.

I've been having great difficulty getting Dovecot working. I'm getting stuck with using mbox directories outside of /home. Dovecot keeps giving me this message:

imap(ncrosby): Namespace '': stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permis
sion denied (euid=1001(ncrosby) egid=1001(ncrosby) missing +w perm: /var/lo
gmail/mbox/ncrosby stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permission denie
d, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) in=0 out=340

I've tried letting Dovecot create this directory, I've tried creating this directory manually and giving it any permission I can think of, I've tried playing about with the permissions throughout the entire /var/logmail tree, but to no avail.

Below is my setup. I appreciate any input.

Here's tree -apug /var/logmail:

/var/logmail
├── [drwx------ root     root    ]  lost+found
├── [drwxr-xr-x root     root    ]  mbox

this is owned by root, and it's complaining about /var/logmail/**mbox**/ncrosby and dovecot cannot create this because mbox is only writable by root

Aki