[Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

[Albert E. Whale]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote:
>
>> Is there an automatic solution to this?
>>
>> Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location:
>> mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied
>
> You mean /home/popuser_evelina2 doesn't exist and Dovecot doesn't have
> write permissions to /home? Choices would be:
>
> a) Create the directory automatically whenever you add new users
> b) Give Dovecot write permissions to /home
> c) If you're using PAM, use pam_mkhomedir
>
Actually the /home/popuser_evelina2 directory exists.  I had thought
that we were making the directory.  It's just the mail subdirectory that
is missing.

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