dovecot - Sep 2013 - Dovecot is not creating directories properly for new accounts

Hi,
I have just set up a new dovecot server with Dovecot 2.2.5.  When I create
a new user and try to authenticate I get the following error

Sep 03 14:33:38 imap(test2): Error: user test2: Initialization failed:
Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed:
mkdir(/home/user/apps/var/mail/imap/test2/mailboxes) failed: Permission
denied (euid=503(imapd) egid=503(imapd) missing +w perm:
/home/user/apps/var/mail, we're not in group 502(dovecot), dir owned by
502:502 mode=0775)
Sep 03 14:33:38 imap(test2): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server
log for more information.

imapd is in the dovecot group and here are the permissions

[user at MB1 logs]$ ll /home/user/apps/var/
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 4 dovecot dovecot 4096 Sep  3 14:35 mail

[user at MB1 logs]$ id imapd
uid=503(imapd) gid=503(imapd) groups=503(imapd),500(user),502(dovecot)


if I su - imapd and then run mkdir -p
/home/user/apps/var/mail/imap/test2/mailboxes

everything starts working and the user can log in.  Isn't Dovecot supposed
to be able to create these?

Dovecot is able to create the other directories after the main home 
folder is created, it might be having issues creating the parent directories

On 09/03/2013 10:49 AM, Chris Lasater wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just set up a new dovecot server with Dovecot 2.2.5. When I 
> create a new user and try to authenticate I get the following error
>
> Sep 03 14:33:38 imap(test2): Error: user test2: Initialization failed: 
> Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: 
> mkdir(/home/user/apps/var/mail/imap/test2/mailboxes) failed: 
> Permission denied (euid=503(imapd) egid=503(imapd) missing +w perm: 
> /home/user/apps/var/mail, we're not in group 502(dovecot), dir owned 
> by 502:502 mode=0775)
> Sep 03 14:33:38 imap(test2): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to 
> server log for more information.
>
> imapd is in the dovecot group and here are the permissions
>
> [user at MB1 logs]$ ll /home/user/apps/var/
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x 4 dovecot dovecot 4096 Sep  3 14:35 mail
>
> [user at MB1 logs]$ id imapd
> uid=503(imapd) gid=503(imapd) groups=503(imapd),500(user),502(dovecot)
>
>
> if I su - imapd and then run mkdir -p 
> /home/user/apps/var/mail/imap/test2/mailboxes
>
> everything starts working and the user can log in.  Isn't Dovecot 
> supposed to be able to create these?