[Dovecot] :INDEX and :CONTROL in 0.99.14

[Karl Latiss]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 17:36 +0900, Alan Premselaar wrote:
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> Karl Latiss wrote:
> > Before anyone say "upgrade" for various reasons I can't right now (and
> > at any rate everything else works well with this version).
> > 
> > My problem is that I can't get :INDEX and :CONTROL working at all:
> > 
> > default_mail_env = maildir:~/:INDEX=/home/dovecot/index/%d/%
> > n:CONTROL=/home/dovecot/control/%d/%n
> > 
> > ls -l /home/dovecot/
> > total 8
> > drwxrwxrwx    3 dovecot  dovecot      4096 Mar  8 07:52 control
> > drwxrwxrwx    3 dovecot  dovecot      4096 Mar  8 07:55 index
> > 
> > (I've made everything 777 for testing)
> > 
> > The error I get is:
> > 
> > Mar  8 09:54:26 host imap(user at domain.com): mkdir
> > (/home/dovecot/index/domain.com/user/.INBOX) failed: Permission denied
> > 
> > If I su to the user at domain.com user I can manually create the directory
> > OK.
> > 
> > I'm using LDAP for authentication if that makes any difference.
> > 
> > Any clues? Pointers? Need more information?
> > 
> 
> Karl,
> 
>   does /home/dovecot/index/domain.com and/or
> /home/dovecot/index/domain.com/user exist?
> 
> if these directories don't exist already it might be complaining about
> trying to write a file in a non-existant directory heirarchy.
> 
Yep - they exist. Right down to the user and all perms 777 to make sure
that wasn't the issue as well.

Karl.