> On October 26, 2017 at 5:40 PM [email protected] wrote: > > > Quoting Steffen Kaiser <[email protected]>: > > > 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 > > I don't know where the uppercase is coming from. In the email I've > sent its lower case. > > How can I fix that without changing permissions of /var/www? Where is > $HOME/MAIL configured? Why do I get this error now for the first time, > when there was no change to the system configuration?
Probably someone attempted to send email via a crappy script and it's now trying to deliver to www-data. first_valid_uid = 1001 last_valid_uid = 1001 also, doveconf -n would be useful. Aki
