hi, I am running debian lenny standard install and dovecot also as a standard install. I have a problem with POP3 access. The error message is:
May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: chdir(/home/vmail/example.com/john) failed with uid 5000: Permission denied May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: child 26253 (pop3) returned error 89 May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<[email protected]>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured I have looked at the archives and see that the problem has been reported before, but cannot find any solution. Dovecot as LDA has no problem accessing and writing mails to the directory as UID 5000. I suspect that it is trying to access some other directory and the error message is misleading. The directory /home/vmail/example.com/john is owned by user vmail with UID 5000. Any clues? my config: greenchilly:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
