trash at skrilnetz.net
2017-Oct-26 14:17 UTC
Initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/www/mail) failed: Permission denied
Hi, I'm running dovecot (v?2.2.9) on ubuntu 14.04 since a long time. I did not change any configuration lately and I'm getting the below error message. /dovecot: lda(www-data): Error: user www-data: Initialization failed: Namespace '':?MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL)?failed: Permission denied (euid=33(www-data) egid=33(www-data) missing +w perm: /var/www, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755//)??/ I did some troubleshooting and I don't understand where the?MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL)?is coming from. Mailboxes are in /var/mail and sending/receiving emails is working as it always did. mail_location is still setup to be?MAIL_LOCATION = MBOX:~/MAIL:INBOX=/VAR/MAIL/%U ? Why is it trying a mkdir in /var/www? ? Any help would be appreciated. Rgs, -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 1718 bytes Desc: PGP Public Key URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20171026/f7539f1e/attachment-0001.bin>
Steffen Kaiser
2017-Oct-26 14:23 UTC
Initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/www/mail) failed: Permission denied
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, trash at skrilnetz.net wrote:> /dovecot: lda(www-data): Error: user www-data: Initialization failed: > Namespace '':?MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL)?failed: Permission denied > (euid=33(www-data) egid=33(www-data) missing +w perm: /var/www, dir owned by > 1001:1001 mode=0755//)??/ > > I did some troubleshooting and I don't understand where > the?MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL)?is coming from. Mailboxes are in /var/mail and^^ /var/mail contains the INBOX only> sending/receiving emails is working as it always did. > > mail_location is still setup to be?MAIL_LOCATION = > MBOX:~/MAIL:INBOX=/VAR/MAIL/%UEverything else is in ~/MAIL (why uppercase?)> Why is it trying a mkdir in /var/www?Because most likely /var/www is the home directory of www-data and you've configured to use $HOME/MAIL as base directory, which is /var/www/mail - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEVAwUBWfHv6Hz1H7kL/d9rAQLoHwf+PL52wG8bqOJkfmBeezBdsjOGQN8fF07P 6SjI3PKSPjlo9w9yixRLjXRlGu6MEQj28KouT6bkJibCGMf2GebWX4zw1DiC/F5/ xwc3DU4ISCKUU/SfLGpJFz/1DDL77qtZcPyrpUzkIHz0O275dY912FyJxpPfJzi3 UiWRqmgtGmX6Uzsw0+XzR1zmFJ6o8wHyucxB6tPuy7U89JpRnayvUExN7rfB/Ogs C5pafiv08jq6Ie+HFNkyVowpluVaG2OXclyucGNly3XnY7FSznkKfDYYYrVvP35o jOtrqoToK7+Eg0qQFz9GBJfseI+iuHYBcmjOrBO/Sc1J1BWgDBm5lw==Nn7R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
trash at skrilnetz.net
2017-Oct-26 14:40 UTC
Initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/www/mail) failed: Permission denied
Quoting Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, trash at skrilnetz.net wrote: > >> /dovecot: lda(www-data): Error: user www-data: Initialization >> failed: Namespace '':?MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL)?failed: Permission >> denied (euid=33(www-data) egid=33(www-data) missing +w perm: >> /var/www, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755//)??/ >> >> I did some troubleshooting and I don't understand where >> the?MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL)?is coming from. Mailboxes are in /var/mail >> and > > ^^ /var/mail contains the INBOX only > >> sending/receiving emails is working as it always did. >> >> mail_location is still setup to be?MAIL_LOCATION = >> MBOX:~/MAIL:INBOX=/VAR/MAIL/%U > > Everything else is in ~/MAIL (why uppercase?) > >> Why is it trying a mkdir in /var/www? > > Because most likely /var/www is the home directory of www-data and > you've configured to use $HOME/MAIL as base directory, which is > /var/www/mail > - -- Steffen KaiserI don't know where the uppercase is coming from. In the email I've sent its lower case. How can I fix that without changing permissions of /var/www? Where is $HOME/MAIL configured? Why do I get this error now for the first time, when there was no change to the system configuration? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 1718 bytes Desc: PGP Public Key URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20171026/ab9b2750/attachment.bin>
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