dovecot - Jun 2005 - chroot directory question

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I
can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error
message:

  ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
  Query: CAPABILITY

Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this:

  dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user

Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in
home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to
those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf
file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account
and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup
the same (same maildir format, etc.).

Thanks for any help  :) 
Lisa B.

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 17:07 -0400, Lisa C Boyd wrote:
> Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this:
> 
>   dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user
> 
> Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in
> home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to
> those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the
conf
> file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account
> and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup
> the same (same maildir format, etc.).
What userdb are you using? Do you really want to chroot users?

The warning in valid_chroot_dirs may be a bit overstated, as long as
Dovecot has no security holes there are no problems with just setting it
to "/home".

Sounds like you've "/./" in other users' home directory but
not in your
own. That makes Dovecot chroot into the directory before the "/./".

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