Troubles with Dovecot 2.3.3 - mkdir permission denied due to +w perm: /var, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)

[Kunal A.]

Dear Ralph,
Ah! You are right. My eyes are not working correctly. I kept thinking I was
reading /va/mail/vmail etc.
Sorry for this and thank you very much for catching it!
Cheers

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:17 PM Ralph Seichter via dovecot <
dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:

> * Kunal A. via dovecot:
>
> > Error: mkdir(/var/vmail/email1 at example.com/Maildir) failed: Permission
> > denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +w perm: /var, dir
> owned
> > by 0:0 mode=0755)
>
> The error message seems pretty clear. User 'vmail' does not have write
> permissions for /var, which is owned by 'root'. I suggest you create
> /var/vmail and grant the necessary permissions there.
>
> -Ralph
>
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