[Dovecot] Permission denied changing to mail directory

[Chris Wakelin]

You're not runing SELinux by any chance? I'm no expert, but I've seen 
messages on the list suggesting that can be the cause of such permission 
problems.

Chris

Chris Hogan wrote:
> I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail 
> directories to be
> 
> /mail/mail/%d/%n
> 
> When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain 
> directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. Its 
> very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b) the 
> directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate 
> unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group of mail.
> 
> I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I don't 
> know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the 
> permissions problem?
> 
> Chris


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