[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot, Outlook Express and new accounts

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

On 2004.09.01 16:38, news.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> Well spotted! I overlooked this. Thanks to David for pointing me towards 
> the ignore_eacces and ignore_enotdir directives. Having added these to 
> the userforward router, the mail gets as far as the local_delivery 
> router, but again failing with:-
> 
> 2004-09-01 14:47:13 1C2VSD-0000HJ-JW == username at ne-worcs.ac.uk 
> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (2): No such file or directory: 
> failed to chdir to /home/group/username
> 
> The directory /home/group/username does not already exist; exim should 
> try and create it.

Exim doesn't run as root so it can't just create directories
anywhere.

If /home/group is writeable by the same group-id exim runs as,
then exim will be able to create the directory, otherwise it won't.

Mike.