On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 14:13 +0000, Bryan Wright wrote: > and each user's mail directory has permissions like this: > > drwx------ 2 uid gid 4096 Jul 5 09:26 /home/uid/mail > > But when I try to check a user's mail using an imap > client, I see the following error: > > Jul 5 09:59:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): mkdir_parents(/home/uid/mail/.imap/ > INBOX) failed: Permission denied .. > Jul 5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file > /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied
Sounds like your userdb is returning wrong uid. Set mail_debug=yes to see what Dovecot is really using.
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