Unknown euid and egid, wrong mail directory

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Sat Jan 30 22:59:58 EET 2021


> On 30/01/2021 22:51 Michael Agbaglo <byteshifter at shifted-bytes.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Trying to set up dovecot for local accounts and virtual users, sending
> test mail fails: dovecot sees a permission problem in /home but the mail
> should go to /srv/mail/example.net/alice.
> 
> "euid=1001(<unknown>) egid=1001(<unknown>)" 1001 doesn't not exist in
> /etc/passwd - Where does it come from?
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }

Maybe these two are responsible for this?

Aki


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