[Dovecot] dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

[Ben Morrow]

At 12PM -0800 on 16/11/12 you (Thufir) wrote:
> I ran dovecot -a and the blizzard of data seemed ok to my limited 
> knowledge.  Is there another log I should look into to trace this error 
> down?
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> 
> Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: 
> Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x 
> perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700)
> Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: 
> Permission denied
> Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: user root: Initialization 
> failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: 
> stat(/root/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) 
> egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700)
> Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. 
> Refer to server log for more information.

You should not be attempting to deliver mail to root directly. Instead
you should forward root's mail to a real user with /etc/aliases;
postfix's local(8) will not allow you to deliver mail as root.

Ben