Hello!

I have problems fetching mail for a system user. In use is a passwd-file.

If I set (for virtual users) mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail in 10-mail.conf, I get permission denied.

2020-03-23 18:39:23 imap(andreas@dualbit.de): Error: chdir(/home/andreas/Maildir/) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /home/andreas/Maildir, dir owned by 5006:5006 mode=0700)

The mailbox has permissions drwx------. 9 andreas susers If I don't set mail_uid I get an error because of missing mail_uid.

I can only access the users mailbox if I set mail_uid = 5006 in 10-mail.conf

On another system I don't haver this problem. I made diffs, read alot of stuff and can't find a solution.

What is the way to go, please? I would like to know why this does not work.

Below my doveconf -n

# 2.2.36 (1f10bfa63): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.24 (124e06aa) # OS: Linux 3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) # Hostname: dualbit1.dualbit.de auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1000 listen = *,[::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /home/%n/Maildir mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_plugins = " quota" mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5006 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4fl ags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 500 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert =

Any help appreciated.

Andreas