Words by Albert E. Whale [Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:29:05PM -0500]:

I have a problem with Dovecot 1.1.6 after having reset the UID/GID information for a few email accounts. I get the following error:

Dec 5 12:26:03 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): stat(/home/popuser_mike/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1366 egid=1366 missing +x perm: /home/popuser_mike/Maildir) Dec 5 12:26:03 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2008-12-05 12:26:03] Dec 5 12:27:40 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): stat(/home/popuser_mike/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1366 egid=1366 missing +x perm: /home/popuser_mike/Maildir) Dec 5 12:27:40 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2008-12-05 12:27:40]

Permissions are:

[/home/popuser_mike/Maildir] ls -la total 40 drwxrws--- 5 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 12:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 mike mike 4096 Nov 5 14:34 ../ drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 3 21:20 cur/ -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 7560 Dec 4 08:02 dovecot.index.log.save -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 184 Dec 4 08:02 dovecot.index.save -rw-rw---- 1 660 mail 18 Dec 4 08:02 dovecot-uidlist.save -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 8 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 0 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity.4912338c drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 new/ drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 tmp/

What am I missing?

You're missing "+x perm" as the logs pointed out.

Try doing a ls -lan and compare the uid+gid.

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