[Dovecot] Permission errors when creating/reading files in users' mail directories

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 14:13 +0000, Bryan Wright wrote:
> and each user's mail directory has permissions like this:
> 
> drwx------  2 uid gid 4096 Jul  5 09:26 /home/uid/mail
> 
> But when I try to check a user's mail using an imap
> client, I see the following error:
> 
> Jul  5 09:59:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): mkdir_parents(/home/uid/mail/.imap/
> INBOX) failed: Permission denied
..
> Jul  5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file
> /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied

Sounds like your userdb is returning wrong uid. Set mail_debug=yes to
see what Dovecot is really using.

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