[Dovecot] dovecot problem or not ?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jul 4 01:12:02 EEST 2005


On 28.6.2005, at 15:30, Mircea Hutanu wrote:

> mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail:
> Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual
> accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready
> the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for
> IMAP settings.

Problem is that the UID returned by Postgres doesn't have access to 
home directory. Make sure that the owner of the home directory in 
filesystem is the same as what Postgresql returns in UID. Also make 
sure that all directories up to the mbox file are also accessible using 
that UID.
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