Problem with mail_uid

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Mar 23 19:52:58 EET 2020


> On 23/03/2020 19:43 ratatouille <ratatouille at bitclusive.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello!
> 
> I have problems fetching mail for a system user. In use is a passwd-file.
> 
> If I set (for virtual users)
> mail_uid = vmail
> mail_gid = vmail
> in 10-mail.conf, I get permission denied.
> 
> 2020-03-23 18:39:23 imap(andreas at dualbit.de): Error: chdir(/home/andreas/Maildir/) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /home/andreas/Maildir, dir owned by 5006:5006 mode=0700)
> 
> The mailbox has permissions drwx------. 9 andreas susers
> If I don't set mail_uid I get an error because of missing mail_uid.

Can you send output of

doveadm user andreas at dualbit.de

Aki


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