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On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, [email protected] wrote:

/dovecot: lda(www-data): Error: user www-data: Initialization failed: Namespace '': MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL) failed: Permission denied (euid=33(www-data) egid=33(www-data) missing +w perm: /var/www, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755//)  /

I did some troubleshooting and I don't understand where the MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL) is coming from. Mailboxes are in /var/mail and

^^ /var/mail contains the INBOX only

sending/receiving emails is working as it always did.

mail_location is still setup to be MAIL_LOCATION = MBOX:~/MAIL:INBOX=/VAR/MAIL/%U

Everything else is in ~/MAIL (why uppercase?)

Why is it trying a mkdir in /var/www?

Because most likely /var/www is the home directory of www-data and you've configured to use $HOME/MAIL as base directory, which is /var/www/mail

- -- Steffen Kaiser
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