You're not runing SELinux by any chance? I'm no expert, but I've seen messages on the list suggesting that can be the cause of such permission problems.

Chris

Chris Hogan wrote:

I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail directories to be

/mail/mail/%d/%n

When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. Its very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b) the directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group of mail.

I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I don't know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the permissions problem?

Chris

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