[Dovecot] Error: file_dotlock_create failed: Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:49 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:

> May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error:
> file_dotlock_open(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot.index.log) failed:
> Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm:
> /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) 

/home/z/email/marco isn't owned by marco? Alternatively you have SELinux
enabled, which is preventing this.