[Dovecot] how to configure dovecot, Error

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Oct 27 16:25:15 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:18 +0200, Roland Schmid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are using Squirrelmail, imapd is dovecot. OS is Debian Sarge.
> When I want to login with Squirrelmail the connection to the imap-server
> is aborted. /var/log/mail.log gives the these log-entries:
> Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap(rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de):
> mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder
> /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de/mail: Permission denied
> Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap(rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de):
> MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home
> /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de)

Does /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de exist? What do you use as passdb
and userdb? Are you maybe using SELinux which isn't allowing Dovecot to
access /home?

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