dovecot - Jun 2005 - dovecot problem or not ?

Hi,

I've setup a postfix mailserver with dovecot and postgres database for
virtual domains with virtual users, but I have some problems getting
the accounts to work.
I've used instruction from this tutorial :
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql

I want users to be able to get their email with imap or pop3, but I
didn't manage to solve this problem.

The server makes mbox style user accounts, I can send email to them
but when I try to read emails from virtual accounts I get the
following error :

Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 connected
Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 10491
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT
password FROM users WHERE userid = 'user at foo.org'
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT
'/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid 'user at
foo.org'
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user at foo.org): mbox: Can't create root
IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user at foo.org): Failed to create storage
with data: mbox:/home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3-login: Login: user at foo.org [127.0.0.1]
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 8 disconnected
Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot: child 10492 (pop3) returned error 89

The error "
mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail:
Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual
accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready
the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for
IMAP settings.

What I'm doing wrong ? Did someone else got this problem ? 
Thanks !

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Mircea Hutanu               
voodookid at gmail.com  
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On 28.6.2005, at 15:30, Mircea Hutanu wrote:
> mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail:
> Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual
> accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready
> the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for
> IMAP settings.
Problem is that the UID returned by Postgres doesn't have access to 
home directory. Make sure that the owner of the home directory in 
filesystem is the same as what Postgresql returns in UID. Also make 
sure that all directories up to the mbox file are also accessible using 
that UID.
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