Hi guys,

Been fighting with postfix+vda/dovecot/

My postfix delivers the emails to /vmail/ which is owned by user maild:users 501(uid):100(gid) without any problems.

When I...

telnet localhost 110

+OK Dovecot ready. user samichand +OK pass wordpass +OK Logged in. -ERR [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-09-05 16:32:52] Connection closed by foreign host.

I get...

Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<samichand>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): Effective uid=4841, gid=27021 Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): maildir: data=/vmail/samichand/Maildir Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): maildir: root=/vmail/samichand/Maildir, index=/vmail/samichand/Maildir, control=, inbox= Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): stat(/vmail/samichand/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): stat(/vmail/samichand/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-09-05 16:32:52] Sep 5 16:32:52 mail dovecot: POP3(samichand): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0

In my mail log.

Below is my dovecot.conf

mail:/ # cat /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 listen = * disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes mail_location = maildir:/vmail/%u/Maildir mail_debug = yes

protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@bla.co.za } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { }

If I change the ownership on the Maildir to the user:users then I can log in, but then postfix doesn't deliver successfully.

I need to set the mail user that dovecot uses to access the maildir to the same uid that postfix uses, how can I do this, I've read the wiki over and over and although it says you can do it, I don't know how.

Taken from the WIKI...

http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds#mailusers Virtual users where all Dovecot users run under a single system user, for example vmail (just NOT dovecot).

Also taken from WIKI http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers You can create for example one vmail user which owns all the mails, or you can assign a separate UID for each user. See UserIds#mailusers for more information about different ways to allocate UIDs for users.

All I want is to be able to access the mail, with the same my "virtual_uid_maps = static:501"(set in my postfix main.cf)

All of these say it can be done, but how do I do it?

Please could someone assist me :(

Thanks.

Neil

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