Hi,

I've setup a postfix mailserver with dovecot and postgres database for virtual domains with virtual users, but I have some problems getting the accounts to work. I've used instruction from this tutorial : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql

I want users to be able to get their email with imap or pop3, but I didn't manage to solve this problem.

The server makes mbox style user accounts, I can send email to them but when I try to read emails from virtual accounts I get the following error :

Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 connected Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 10491 Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'user@foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT '/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user@foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user@foo.org): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user@foo.org): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3-login: Login: user@foo.org [127.0.0.1] Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 8 disconnected Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot: child 10492 (pop3) returned error 89

The error " mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for IMAP settings.

What I'm doing wrong ? Did someone else got this problem ? Thanks !

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Mircea Hutanu
voodookid@gmail.com