dovecot - Feb 2011 - dovecot permission problems

Hello,

I'm trying to make a dovecot installation run on my freeBSD 8.1 server,
since quite a long time now, and I can't figure out how to solve my last
problem. I did quite a lot of searching and many people seem to have the
same problem, but I didn't manage to make any solution work on my host. So I
would be glad for every hint :-)

I'm using postfix with dovecot. Everything works just as expected, except
one little permission problem. When dovecot tries to deliver a mail to my
homedir everything is working out. I use fdm to connect to my server to
download the mails, and here is where things stop to work:
Here some logs: http://pastie.org/1579465
Here my dovecot -n output: http://pastie.org/1579489

I really tried a huge amount of different things, redesigned my whole
configuration file from scratch etc.

Does anybody has an idea how I could fix this little last problem I have
here? If you need more information, please don't hesitate to ask, I
wasn't
sure what I should provide and didn't want to spam too much ;)

With best regards,
Calvin23
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On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 09:34 -0800, Calvin23 wrote:
> Feb 18 18:22:48 mail dovecot: imap(a): Error:
open(/home/a/Maildir/cur/1298049758.V54Ie8f326M541264.mail:2,) failed:
Permission denied (euid=5000(<unknown>) egid=5000(<unknown>) missing
+r perm: /home/a/Maildir/cur/1298049758.V54Ie8f326M541264.mail:2,, euid is not
dir owner)
It says it doesn't have read permissions to that file. What permissions
does the file have?

My guess: You've told Dovecot to use UID 5000 for accessing mails, while
your mail deliveries use some other UID to write them. Make them the
same.