[Dovecot] Help, problems with permissions

Simon Windsor simon.windsor at cornfield.org.uk
Mon Feb 14 21:06:12 EET 2005


Hi

Thank you.

I have found the problem

/home/dovecot should be 755, and not 700


Thanks for all your help

Simon


 
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:52 -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Simon Windsor wrote:
> > 
> > > Can anyone provide advice on what I have to do to get POP, and
> > > eventually IMAP working?
> > 
> > You'll need to have your pop3 daemon running as uid dovecot.
> 
> Or have the maildir owned by the user that the pop3 daemon is running as. 
> Which solution is correct for you will depend on whether you are using a 
> virtual user setup or not.
> 
> --
> Charlie
> 
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