On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:27 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: > Nov 12 11:45:15 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(bpyi): > open(/var/spool/mail/bpyi) failed: Permission denied (euid=2586(bpyi) > egid=2000(bard2) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail)
It's trying to create bpyi user's INBOX that doesn't exist yet, but fails because it doesn't have write access to /var/spool/mail/ directory. Probably gets fixed by the time the user gets the first mail and your MTA creates the file. > Questions: > 1) Are the ownership and permissions on the /var/dcindx index root > directory ideal or should they be something else? They're fine. > 2) Ideally what should the ownership and permissions be for individual > user subdirs? I create the user mail directories when creating a new > account, so it would be little extra trouble to create and set the > ownership and permissions. 0700, owned by the user.
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