Glad you got it fixed! And, FYI, I think things like that happen to a lot of people ;)
On 6/27/05, Lisa C Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, too much to change and learn right now to go to Postfix :) So I > decided to try and look at Dovecot again and see if I could figure out > what the problem was. Finally I fixed it! It's one of those annoying > little simple things that probably would never happen to anyone else but > me :) But here's what I went through in case you have similar problems. > > ----- My original problem ----- > I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through > SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users > are getting this error message: > > ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. > Query: CAPABILITY > > Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: > > dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user > -------------------------------- > > The solution: > > In /etc/passwd I had setup users (other than myself) so they could not > go out of their home directory when ftp'ing. > > Example: lisab:x:500:500:Lisa Boyd:/home/lisab/.:/bin/bash > > By removing the /. after /home/lisab, then I could access everything I > am supposed to through IMAP. > > Talk about hair-pulling troubles from a little dot. Ugh. > Lisa B. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Sam Folk-Williams Linux+ http://predisposition.com/stuff -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
