matthias thnx a lot for your hint. We are 2 admins on this box and this makes things complicated. /home 's permissions where 705 and that's the reason for this. Solved thank u again mate:)

Από: Matthias Andree [mailto:matthias.andree@gmx.de] Αποστολή: Κυρ 14/11/2004 1:52 πμ Προς: Καράμπης Παναγιώτης Κοιν.: dovecot@dovecot.org Θέμα: Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied

Καράμπης Παναγιώτης epp719@epp.teicrete.gr writes:

hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server CAPABILITY

i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails:

dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89

i give the: root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719

Panagiotis,

if the user epp719 and dovecot are in a common group, that may be the cause why it isn't working.

drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory.

What are the permissions of the / and /home directories? ls -lad /home -- can dovecot execute the / and /home directories? If these are drwx------ or similar, that might be the problem.

Hope that helps.

-- Matthias Andree