[Dovecot] mkdir no permission

[John Doe]

From: Anna Obertacke <anna at obertacke.de>

> Am 19.05.2009 um 21:46 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:07 +0200, Anna Obertacke wrote:
> >> May 19 10:00:38 ubuntu dovecot: POP3(annalein):
> >> mkdir(/home/annalein/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied
> >> (euid=1000(annalein) egid=1000(annalein) missing +w perm: /home/
> >> annalein)
> >
> > It says /home/annalein isn't writable by annalein user. I'd
> > guess /home/annalein is no longer owned by annalein?
> >
> that is not the problem
> drwxr-x--x 20 annalein      annalein      12288 2009-05-18 19:05  
> annalein
> /home/annalein is writable by annalein.

Maybe it complains about the group not having  write access...?
Try chmod 771 instead of 751 to test maybe...

JD