[Dovecot] Problem with logging in on pop3

michal michal at bio-world.com
Wed Sep 28 00:28:20 EEST 2005


I switched from dovecot 0.99 to 1.0 stable alpha and now i cannot get my pop3 to work.
I checked the logs and this what i`m getting when i try to login using outlook:


Login: user=<michael>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.200, lip=192.168.1.20
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): Effective uid=515, gid=100
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): maildir: access(/home/michael/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): maildir: couldn't find root dir
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): mbox: root exists (/home/michael/mail)
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/michael)
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): mbox: root=/home/michael/mail, index=/home/michael/mail, inbox=/var/mail/michael
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.bio-world.com.18859.4e2d002619befc19) failed: Permission denied
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/michael: Permission denied
Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0


Anybody have any idea how to fix that pls ?
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