[Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Oct 29 17:32:56 EET 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:23 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote:
> >>>> Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location:
> >>>> mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied
..
> > 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.

Well:

>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: /home/dovecot.passwd
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: /home/dovecot.passwd
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd

What does dovecot.passwd contain? Does it contains popuser_evelina2?

Set mail_debug=yes and log in, what are the full logs about it?
What does ls -lnd /home/popuser_evelina2 show?

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