dovecot - Nov 2004 - Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied

hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as
webmail. But squirrel returns an error:
ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server
CAPABILITY
 
i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to
log in and view mails:
 
dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975:
Permission denied
dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89
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i give the:
root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719
drwx---r-x  4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719
and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things
happen.
both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory.

I attach the dovecot.conf file... any help is appreciated!
 
PS: Sorry about my english its not my native language.. oh i forgot squirrel
gets data and attachments from mysql...
 
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???????? ?????????? <epp719 at epp.teicrete.gr> writes:
> hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as
webmail. But squirrel returns an error:
> ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server
> CAPABILITY
>  
> i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try
to log in and view mails:
>  
> dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975:
Permission denied
> dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> i give the:
> root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719
Panagiotis,

if the user epp719 and dovecot are in a common group, that may be the
cause why it isn't working.
> drwx---r-x  4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719
> and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same
things happen.
> both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory.
What are the permissions of the / and /home directories?
ls -lad /home -- can dovecot execute the / and /home directories? If
these are drwx------ or similar, that might be the problem.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Matthias Andree

matthias thnx a lot for your hint. We are 2 admins on this box and this makes
things complicated. /home 's permissions where 705 and that's the reason
for this. Solved thank u again mate:)

________________________________

???: Matthias Andree [mailto:matthias.andree at gmx.de]
????????: ??? 14/11/2004 1:52 ??
????: ???????? ??????????
????.: dovecot at dovecot.org
????: Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied



???????? ?????????? <epp719 at epp.teicrete.gr> writes:
> hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as
webmail. But squirrel returns an error:
> ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server
> CAPABILITY
> 
> i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try
to log in and view mails:
> 
> dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975:
Permission denied
> dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> i give the:
> root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719
Panagiotis,

if the user epp719 and dovecot are in a common group, that may be the
cause why it isn't working.
> drwx---r-x  4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719
> and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same
things happen.
> both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory.
What are the permissions of the / and /home directories?
ls -lad /home -- can dovecot execute the / and /home directories? If
these are drwx------ or similar, that might be the problem.

Hope that helps.

--
Matthias Andree