[Dovecot] "Internal Error" from maildirs (new user)

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Friday 04 July 2003 14:53, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 08:57 PM, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > . NO Internal error [2003-07-04 10:50:51]
> >
> > I can find no cause of the inbox error in any log.  Suggestions?
>
> Internal errors always write to error log what the real error message
> was. By default Dovecot logs to mail service, which often goes to
> /var/log/mail.log. If you still can't find it, set log_path in config
> file to where you want the log to go.
>

I was grepping for Internal error.  Turns out there were several instances of:

imap(shaleh): mkdir(/var/spool/imap/shaleh/.INBOX) failed: Permission denied

> > All of my sub folders come back as read only (even when I use select).
> >  I
> > presume this is a permissions issue.  What should the perms be?
>
> Everything should be readable and writable by the logged in user's UID.

ah.  I had them writable by the daemon's UID.  Fixing the permissions problem 
solved everything.