[Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

[Albert E. Whale]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:30 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Then I guess your userdb isn't returning correct UID for the user.
> You're using system users?
>
>   
Yes, the system users (/etc/passwd) files.  Here's that dovecot.conf
file.  I would have hoped that it would have been able to create the
mail folder, if it was not there.

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