[Dovecot] mkdir no permission

[Anna Obertacke]

I tested Maildir to.

Point 1 and 2 i don't know the programms.
Point 3: its 1000.

But you help me to another idea. I forgot that nothing works in my  
homedir. no ftp, no apache (i had my website there) etc. The other  
problems didn't bother me but now i remember.

Is there a possibility to delete the homedir and make it new? Or will  
i have the same problems again when i save the data in there?

Do the other errors of dovecot refer to this error or are there other  
problems.

I test  your suggest, i think it should work, because it is not in  
homedir.



Am 20.05.2009 um 19:10 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

> That's strange. Dovecot anyway used access() system call to verify  
> that
> the directory isn't writable. Some possibilities:
>
> 1. Did you enable SELinux / AppArmor or something similar that  
> prevents
> Dovecot from accessing home directories?
>
> 2. Some filesystem ACL was set to the home directory that prevents
> writes? I don't really know anything about ACLs..
>
> 3. Are there multiple annaleins? Check with ls -ldn /home/annalein  
> that
> it's 1000.
>
> I guess the last possibility is that Dovecot's check is just buggy.  
> You
> could get a strace output to see what Dovecot is really doing and send
> it to me. You can do this by changing in dovecot.conf:
>
> protocol pop3 {
>  ..
>  mail_location = /usr/bin/strace -o /tmp/dovecot.log /usr/lib/ 
> dovecot/pop3
> }
>
> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:19 +0200, Anna Obertacke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> that is not the problem
>>
>> drwxr-x--x 20 annalein      annalein      12288 2009-05-18 19:05
>> annalein
>>
>> /home/annalein is writable by annalein.
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>