dovecot - Aug 2005 - Permission denied changing to mail directory

I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail 
directories to be

/mail/mail/%d/%n

When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain 
directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. Its 
very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b) the 
directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate 
unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group of
mail.

I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I don't 
know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the 
permissions problem?

Chris

You're not runing SELinux by any chance? I'm no expert, but I've
seen
messages on the list suggesting that can be the cause of such permission 
problems.

Chris

Chris Hogan wrote:
> I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail 
> directories to be
> 
> /mail/mail/%d/%n
> 
> When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain 
> directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further.
Its
> very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b)
the
> directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate 
> unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group
of mail.
> 
> I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I
don't
> know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the 
> permissions problem?
> 
> Chris

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Christopher Wakelin,                           c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
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Chris Hogan wrote:
> I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail
> directories to be
> 
> /mail/mail/%d/%n
> 
> When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain
> directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. 
How does your default_mail_env look like?

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Tomi Hakala