Delivery doesn't seem to be the issue. The issue appears to be reading the
mail later on.
Here is my master.cf line for dovecot:
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d
${recipient}
and as you can see, the files in the delivery location have the correct
permissions for being delivered by user "vmail":
# ls -la
total 64
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 23 12:11 .
drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 21 17:41 ..
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 21 17:41 cur
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 224 Dec 22 00:01 dovecot.index
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 572 Dec 23 11:51 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 472 Dec 23 11:51 dovecot-uidlist
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 23 11:51 new
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 23 11:51 tmp
The errors appear when I login via IMAP and try to read the messages.
-Geoff
________________________________________
From: Timo Sirainen [...@iki.fi]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:03 PM
To: Geoff Sweet
Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Permissions errors while reading messages via IMAP
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 12:18 -0800, Geoff Sweet wrote:
> Dec 23 12:08:49 mail1 dovecot: IMAP(geoff.sw...@test.com):
> open(/home/vmail/test.com/geoff.sweet/Maildir/dovecot.index.log) failed:
> Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm:
> /home/vmail/test.com/geoff.sweet/Maildir/dovecot.index.log)
..
> There is some permission issue that allows dovecot to deliver email to the
> /home/vmail location (I dislike this location and want to change it) via the
> dovecot LDA process, but then not be able to read it when accessed via IMAP.
> I'm very confused lol.
Apparently you want the emails to be owned by vmail:vmail, but you're
running deliver as something else than vmail and the resulting files
won't be owned by vmail:vmail..
So you're calling deliver wrong from Postfix. Your master.cf probably
has dovecot pipe, it should have user=vmail:vmail.
