[Dovecot] TROUBLES WITH dovecot configuration

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:22 +0200, Alexey S. Kuznetsov wrote:
> mkdir_parents(/var/spool/mail/vhosts/mydomain.org//mail/.imap/INBOX)
> failed: Permission denied
> pop3(testemail at mydomain.org): Jan 28 22:11:02 Error: Couldn't
> open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more
> information. [2005-01-28 22:11:02]
> 
> If I set uid 508 everything will be cool!
> I don't understand why it works like this?

It simply means the UID 1000 doesn't have permission to create the
directory. Probably the vhosts directory is owned by UID 508.
chmod a+rw /var/spool/mail/vhosts might fix it, but it's not necessarily
such a good idea. Rather create the domain directories manually and with
correct UIDs.

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