Hello! I'm new in this list and new to dovecot, so I have some troubles with its configuration. I have an Linux OS installed and Postfix what supports virtual domains and places mail to: /var/spool/mail/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/

I've installed dovecot, configured it to use only pop3 proto. Configuration like this (most important lines from config)

cat /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf

login_user = dovecot default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/vhosts/%d/%n auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /usr/local/dovecot/ps/pop.users auth_passdb = passwd-file /usr/local/dovecot/ps/pop.users auth_user = root

cat /usr/local/dovecot/ps/pop.users testemail@mydomain.org:1a1dc91c907325c69271ddf0c944bc72[34]:1000:7266::/var/spool/mail/vhosts/mydomain.org/:::

My system uid is 508, when I set it in pop.users file it works nice: accepts password, lists mail, everything. But when I want to create uniq. id for my domain:

useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/date -u 1000 mydomainorg

telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user testemail@mydomain.org +OK pass pass +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host.

And in logs:

cat /var/log/dovecot.log

Jan 28 22:11:02 Error: mkdir_parents(/var/spool/mail/vhosts/mydomain.org//mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied pop3(testemail@mydomain.org): Jan 28 22:11:02 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-01-28 22:11:02]

If I set uid 508 everything will be cool! I don't understand why it works like this? I logged in to my account and via sudo su - I became root user. Root has uid 0, and why it works with uid 508 I can't even imagine :(

Please help me with this problem. Thanx!

-- Sincerely, Alexey S. Kuznetsov AK2351-RIPE