[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir( ) failed: Permission denied

[Vallo Kallaste]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:

> On 10/9/2009, Vallo Kallaste (kalts at estpak.ee) wrote:
> > Dovecot fails to chdir() into users home directory giving the following error:
> 
> DC version / dovecot -n?
Uhm, I'm truly sorry:

M$ DC is NT4 with all the patches one can dig up.

# 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.16 i686 Linux (i586)
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir
lda:
  postmaster_address: postmaster at some.where
  mail_plugins: sieve
  mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
plugin:
  sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_global_path: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve
  sieve_dir: ~/.sieve
  sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/
-- 
Vallo