[Dovecot] dovecot not able to access sentmail folder in home directory(chdir)

[vineet]

using dovecot version 0.99.11

while accessing through squirrelmail or even connecting manually(using openssl) to the server dovecot is not able to access the folder

the mail.err log file has the following entry:
dovecot: (/home/user) permission denied error no 89 returned by child process

the squirrel mail error was 
connection dropped by imap server
Query capability

thanks
vineet

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