[Dovecot] sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start doesn't work

[michal]

Is it possible that dovecot came with your system and you have actually two dovocots on your system. Then each one of them is using different config file and thats why its working and not working depending on which one you start.
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sam Fung 
  To: dovecot at dovecot.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:29 PM
  Subject: [Dovecot] sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start doesn't work


  I've been trying to get dovecot working with postfix with virtual domain setting.  I noticed that if I started dovecot with "sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot", everything would work fine.  But if I started with "sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start", I would get the following permission error.  I checked "ps -ef | grep dovecot" and didn't find anything different. 

  Sep 29 16:54:35 localhost imap-login: Login: xyz at example.com [::ffff:192.168.0.4]
  Sep 29 16:54:36 localhost imap( xyz at example.com): mkdir_parents(/var/spool
  /virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied

  Here's the directory for storing virtual domain email.

  [localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com 
  total 24
  drwx------  3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 . 
  drwxrwxr-x  3 root  mail  4096 Sep 21 21:57 ..
  drwx------  3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 xyz

  [localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz 
  total 32
  drwx------  3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 . 
  drwx------  3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 ..
  -rw-------  1 vuser vuser 1209 Sep 29 19:10 Inbox 
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