[Dovecot] :INDEX and :CONTROL in 0.99.14

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:04 AM, Karl Latiss wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:37 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 21:17 +1100, Karl Latiss wrote:
>>>>> (/home/dovecot/index/domain.com/user/.INBOX) failed: Permission  
>>>>> denied
>> ..
>>> Yep - they exist. Right down to the user and all perms 777 to  
>>> make sure
>>> that wasn't the issue as well.
>>
>> You're running SELinux which doesn't allow it?
>
> Nope. No SELinux running. RHEL 3 U6.
>
> DO any of the chroot setting have anything to do with this? I have:
>
> valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/mail/vmail
> mail_chroot = /var/spool/mail/vmail

Well, this instructs Dovecot to chroot to /var/spool/mail/vmail, so  
there's no way then it can access /home.

> I even changed valid_chroot_dirs to
>
> valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/mail/vmail:/home/dovecot

That doesn't matter, because it has already chrooted to /var/spool/ 
mail/vmail.

I don't think chrooting is all that important, just don't do it.
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