dovecot - Sep 2005 - Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul

Hi,

I've been trying to set up Exin and Dovecot and think I've almost gotten
there. However I'm not recieving mail to my inbox and I get messages like
the following in /var/log/exim/main.log:

2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 <=
users-return-105525-paulpaulororke.net at openoffice.org
H=s002.sfo.collab.net<http://s002.sfo.collab.net>(
openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org>)
[64.125.133.202<http://64.125.133.202>]
P=smtp S=3120 id=200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com
2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 == paul at paulororke.net R=localuser
T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to
/home/paul

How do I make it so that this doesn't happen?
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Well, as this is obviously a mail delivery question you should perhaps 
ask on the exim lists. I suppose the user under which the exim delivery 
agent is running has no permission to access ypur home dirs. I am not 
familiar with exim so I cannot give ypu further advice, but this problem 
is definitely not dovecot-related.

Yours,
Jakob Curdes
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to set up Exin and Dovecot and think I've almost 
> gotten there.  However I'm not recieving mail to my inbox and I get 
> messages like the following in /var/log/exim/main.log:
>
> 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 <= 
> users-return-105525-paul=paulororke.net at openoffice.org 
> <mailto:paulororke.net at openoffice.org> H=s002.sfo.collab.net 
> <http://s002.sfo.collab.net> (openoffice.org
<http://openoffice.org>)
> [64.125.133.202 <http://64.125.133.202>] P=smtp S=3120 
> id=200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com 
> <mailto:200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com>
> 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 == paul at paulororke.net 
> <mailto:paul at paulororke.net> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer
(13):
> Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul
>
> How do I make it so that this doesn't happen?
>

Paul Ororke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to set up Exin and Dovecot and think I've almost 
> gotten there.  However I'm not recieving mail to my inbox and I get 
> messages like the following in /var/log/exim/main.log:
>
> 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 <= 
> users-return-105525-paul=paulororke.net at openoffice.org 
> <mailto:paulororke.net at openoffice.org> H=s002.sfo.collab.net 
> <http://s002.sfo.collab.net> (openoffice.org
<http://openoffice.org>)
> [64.125.133.202 <http://64.125.133.202>] P=smtp S=3120 
> id=200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com 
> <mailto:200509280613.08050.dlewis at delewis.com>
> 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 == paul at paulororke.net 
> <mailto:paul at paulororke.net> R=localuser T=local_delivery defer
(13):
> Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul
You have a problem with exim there, not with dovecot.
>
> How do I make it so that this doesn't happen?
>
Start by sharing with us your local_delivery transport and localuser 
router from exim.conf

Marius