Greetings all.

I've been having great difficulty getting Dovecot working. I'm getting stuck with using mbox directories outside of /home. Dovecot keeps giving me this message:

imap(ncrosby): Namespace '': stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permis
sion denied (euid=1001(ncrosby) egid=1001(ncrosby) missing +w perm: /var/lo
gmail/mbox/ncrosby stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permission denie
d, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) in=0 out=340

I've tried letting Dovecot create this directory, I've tried creating this directory manually and giving it any permission I can think of, I've tried playing about with the permissions throughout the entire /var/logmail tree, but to no avail.

Below is my setup. I appreciate any input.

Here's tree -apug /var/logmail:

/var/logmail
├── [drwx------ root     root    ]  lost+found
├── [drwxr-xr-x root     root    ]  mbox
└── [drwxrwxr-x root     mail    ]  spool
    ├── [-rw-rw---- fedora   mail    ]  fedora
    └── [-rw-rw---- ncrosby  mail    ]  ncrosby

3 directories, 2 files

And permissions for /var/logmail itself:

drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root  4096 Sep 19 01:52 .

And now doveconf -n:

# 2.2.31 (65cde28): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 26

(Twenty Six) ext4 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = mbox:/var/logmail/mbox/%n:INBOX=/var/logmail/spool/%n 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 = } passdb { args = dovecot driver = pam } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd }

-- // Nelson Crosby /* nc@sourcecomb.com */