Dovecot is able to create the other directories after the main home folder is created, it might be having issues creating the parent directories

On 09/03/2013 10:49 AM, Chris Lasater wrote:

Hi, I have just set up a new dovecot server with Dovecot 2.2.5. When I create a new user and try to authenticate I get the following error

Sep 03 14:33:38 imap(test2): Error: user test2: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: mkdir(/home/user/apps/var/mail/imap/test2/mailboxes) failed: Permission denied (euid=503(imapd) egid=503(imapd) missing +w perm: /home/user/apps/var/mail, we're not in group 502(dovecot), dir owned by 502:502 mode=0775) Sep 03 14:33:38 imap(test2): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

imapd is in the dovecot group and here are the permissions

[user@MB1 logs]$ ll /home/user/apps/var/ total 4 drwxrwxr-x 4 dovecot dovecot 4096 Sep 3 14:35 mail

[user@MB1 logs]$ id imapd uid=503(imapd) gid=503(imapd) groups=503(imapd),500(user),502(dovecot)

if I su - imapd and then run mkdir -p /home/user/apps/var/mail/imap/test2/mailboxes

everything starts working and the user can log in. Isn't Dovecot supposed to be able to create these?