Hi,

I have a Fedora 14 x86_64 computer. I run dovecot 2.0.12 on it, only to keep a local imap copy of all my email, in maildir format. A couple days ago the hard disk broke, so I bought a new one, and reinstalled Fedora 14 x86_64 with all the updates.

Then I copied all the maildirs from a backup to the new drive.

But I can't access email now. No matter how I change sticky bits or ownership and permissions of all the involved files and directories, etc.. Login succeeds, but I get this error whenever I try to create new mailboxes or access existing ones:

May 25 13:36:03 polaris dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<marco>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=8489, secured May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_open(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: opendir(/home/z/email/marco/new) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +r perm: /home/z/email/marco/new, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner)

Again, this doesn't change changing ownership. Output of dovecot -n is below The only possible difference I can find between this and the previous install of the SAME distro/dovecot package is that this time I use ext4 filesystem. Maybe, I don't remember, I was using ext3 in the original install.

What must I change to gain access again to my mailboxes???

thanks! Marco

dovecot -n

# 2.0.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:88: ssl_disable has been renamed to ssl doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:979: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } doveconf: Warning: SSL is disabled because global ssl=no, ignoring ssl=yes for subsection # OS: Linux 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login listen = * mail_location = maildir:/home/z/email/%u mail_privileged_group = mail_imap passdb { args = scheme=plain username_format=%n /etc/local_dovecot_passwords driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap service auth { user = root } ssl = no userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/local_dovecot_passwords driver = passwd-file } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com }