dovecot - Sep 2006 - imap fails, policy wrong?

up until a week or so ago, I had no problem using IMAP logging into a server 
running Fedora Core (I think 4 or 5 ) with dovecot 1.0.  Had used squirrelmail 
and other mail agents using IMAP with no problem.  as of 2 days ago, I 
get a squirrelmail error "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: CAPABILITY"   and turning on dovecot debugging shows the following:

audit(1157176740.621:14111): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=9431
comm="doveco
t" name="rob" dev=dm-0 ino=23560377
scontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tconte
xt=user_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 tclass=dir

can someone point me in the right direction?  apologies if this doesn't
contain
enough info, will try to get more if necesssary, thanks in advance.

(incidentally, the simpler dovecot error message says it can't chdir to 
my $HOME or its parent, but I see no problem with perms or ownership. )

Rob Lingelbach
rob at colorist.org

On Sat, September 2, 2006 3:02 am, rob at adeed.tele.com
wrote:
>
> audit(1157176740.621:14111): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=9431
> comm="doveco
> t" name="rob" dev=dm-0 ino=23560377
> scontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tconte
> xt=user_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 tclass=dir
>
> can someone point me in the right direction?  apologies if this
>
problem fixed, thanks to Peter Bowyer's pointing out to me that this
is SELinux
and not dovecot causing the problem.   crash course in SELinux gave
me the
knowhow to change the attributes on the files involved.

thanks.
Rob