Hi

Thank you for the reply.

The documentation on the wiki/dovecot site clearly provides an example exim transport statements showing mail writes as dovecot/dovecot with permisions of 600.

The mail system uses virtual users, and I have provided mail/group ids of 1001/1001. The current directory tree is

/home - owned by root /home/dovecot - owned by root /home/dovecot/users - owned by root, 777 /home/dovecot/users/DOMAIN - owned by 1001:1001, 777 /home/dovecot/users/DOMAIN/USER - owned by 1001:1001, 777 /home/dovecot/users/DOMAIN/USER/cur - owned by dovecot:dovecot, 600 /home/dovecot/users/DOMAIN/USER/new - owned by dovecot:dovecot, 600 /home/dovecot/users/DOMAIN/USER/tmp - owned by dovecot:dovecot, 600

Can you confirm that all files should be owned by 1001/1001?

What permissions should should exist on these directories/files?

Thanks, once again

Simon

Amelia A Lewis (amyzing@talsever.com) wrote:

It looks as though cur/new/tmp are owned by user dovecot, rather than the user whose mail it is. In my (similar, prolly) setup, maildirs are owned by their owners. Dovecot is executed as the user reading the mail.

Amy! On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:19:09 +0000 Simon Windsor <simon.windsor@cornfield.org.uk> wrote:

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Hi

I am replacing my current mail system, using Exim/Postgres/WU-IMAP to another host using Dovecot.

Everything has gone well, until I have tried to access some test mails via POP.

The error message I am getting is

Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw@orion-w-t.co.uk): lstat (/home/dovecot/users/orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw/cur) failed: Permission denied Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw@orion-w-t.co.uk): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-02-14 03:03:57]

The file permissions are

drwx------ 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 13 23:24 cur drwx------ 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 14 02:53 new drwx------ 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 14 02:53 tmp

The UID/GID I am using is 1001, and the orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw directories are owned by that uid/gid.

Can anyone provide advice on what I have to do to get POP, and eventually IMAP working?

Many thanks

Simon

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