[Dovecot] telnet to dovecot not creating mbox

[Ken A]

Andy Fadich wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Whenever I create a new email user, telnet fails until an email is sent to
> that user to create his mbox.  This is the error that it gives. Anyone know
> how to fix this?  I could create the email account script to touch the users
> mbox, but I havn't needed to do this in the past with ipop3d and dovecot on
> a different server.
>  
>  
> [root at mail log]# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Dovecot ready.
> user testact
> +OK
> pass
> +OK Logged in.
> -ERR Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
> [2007-07-13 10:37:15]
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
>  
> Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<testact>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured
> Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): open(/var/spool/mail/testact,
> O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied
> Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): access() failed with mbox file
> /var/spool/mail/testact: No such file or directory
> Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): stat() failed with mbox file
> /var/spool/mail/testact: No such file or directory
> Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): Couldn't init INBOX: Internal
> error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-07-13
> 10:33:43]
> Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): Mailbox init failed top=0/0,
> retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
>  
> Andy
> 

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Ken Anderson
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