[Dovecot] Possible bug: why is the owner of home-directory important?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:13 +0200, Qweb - Yavuz Aydin wrote:
> And in the logfile I see:
> Oct 13 13:09:47 s1 dovecot: chdir(/local/web/websites/5850844095/www) failed
> with uid 1020: Permission denied
> Oct 13 13:09:47 s1 dovecot: child 1527 (imap) returned error 89
> 
> However, when I change the permissions on the home-dir to 755, it works. The
> point is, none of my mailboxes (INBOX or others) are in my home-dir, so why
> does dovecot need my home-directory?
..
> PS1 the default_mail_env reads:
> default_mail_env = mbox:/local/mail/imap/%u/:INBOX=/local/mail/spool/%u

In that case it would be better if userdb returned /local/mail/imap/%u
as the home directory. But that's too much trouble to change, the
alternative is to make it chdir to /tmp directory. The current CVS code
actually already fallbacks to /tmp if chdir() to home directory failed
because of permissions.

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