[Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 25 20:30:46 EEST 2009


On May 25, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On May 25, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:51:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>>> On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote:
>>>> exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p  
>>>> <pid_of_dovecot>"
>>>> then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log
>>>> (gzipped)
>>>
>>> attached
>>
>> were you able to detect anything? I am still stuck with the problem.
>
> Well, strace says what Dovecot also says:
>
> 5598  chdir("/home/vmail/example.com/john") = -1 EACCES (Permission  
> denied)

I can't really give any more suggestions. It should either be a  
directory permission problem somewhere or SELinux or something. You  
could maybe temporarily try installing v1.2 and see what it logs as  
the error. It should tell what exactly is missing.



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