Dovecot-lda permission errors or maybe authentication errors?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Robert Kryger wrote:

> I have tried to specify the dovecot-lda in two ways.  First, in the
> /etc/postfix/main.cf file:
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -a
> "$RECIPIENT"
>
> or alternatively, I leave the mailbox_command blank and specify the
> following in the .forward file of a test user:
>
> | "/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda"
>
> Either approach gives me the same error(s).  When a mail message is sent to
> the test user USER1, the following errors appear in the dovecot-lda error
> file:
>
> Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Error: chdir(/home/user1/) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=524(user1) egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No such file or
> directory, euid is not dir owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Error:
> chdir(/home/user1) failed: Permission denied Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1):
> Error: user user1: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.':
> stat(/home/user1/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=524(user1)
> egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No such file or directory, euid is not dir
> owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to
> server log for more information.
>
> Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Error: chdir(/home/user1/) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=524(user1) egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No such file or
> directory, euid is not dir owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Error:
> chdir(/home/user1) failed: Permission denied Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1):
> Error: user user1: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.':
> stat(/home/user1/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=524(user1)
> egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No such file or directory, euid is not dir
> owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to
> server log for more information.
>
> At first, I interpreted this to mean the file permissions were not set
> correctly on the home directory or the Maildir folder.  However, I have
> opened these up to full rwx access for everyone and I still get the same
> errors.  Alternatively, perhaps this is related somehow to the dovecot-lda
> authentication process via the password or user databases, but I can't make
> any sense of the documentation.

What's the output of:

ls -nal /home/user1

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Steffen Kaiser
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