[Dovecot] Mail storage creation fails with virtual users

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 30 07:44:22 EET 2009


Maybe the specific command wasn't correct, but the "give it enough permissions" idea will work. If you upgrade to v1.2, it'll tell exactly what permission is missing and that could help figuring out what you need to change.

On 30.12.2009, at 0.33, Scott H. W. Snyder wrote:

> I've tried the first, and it didn't work.
> 
> I'd rather not have to do the second.  :(
> 
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> 
>> Two possibilities:
>> 
>> a) Give it enough permissions (e.g. chmod 01777 /var/mail/folders)
>> 
>> b) Create the directories manually at the same time as creating new
>> users.
> 



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