[Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 25 20:28:42 EEST 2009


On May 25, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:51:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>> On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote:
>>> exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p <pid_of_dovecot>"
>>> then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log
>>> (gzipped)
>>
>> attached
>
> were you able to detect anything? I am still stuck with the problem.

Well, strace says what Dovecot also says:

5598  chdir("/home/vmail/example.com/john") = -1 EACCES (Permission  
denied)



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