# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago) disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/appmail_chain_CA.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/appmail_uconn_edu_X509_cert.cer ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!IDEA-CBC-SHA:!DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!MEDUIM:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/appmail_key.key userdb { driver = passwd } Hi, based on commands below, anyone know why i would get these errors ? Jun 29 12:05:02 mail2 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cec-support-comment>, method=PLAIN, rip=137.99.24.120, lip=137.99.90.68, mpid=6752, TLS Jun 29 12:05:02 mail2 dovecot: imap(cec-support-comment): Error: user cec-support-comment: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: mkdir(/home/cec_support_comment/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=593(cec-support-comment) egid=594(cec-support-comment) missing +w perm: /home, euid is not dir owner) Back story, user wanted names to have dashes and not underscores, I guess I may need to delete user accounts and just create them again... usermod cec_support -l cec-support usermod cec_support_comment -l cec-support-comment from man page -l, --login NEW_LOGIN The name of the user will be changed from LOGIN to NEW_LOGIN. Nothing else is changed. In particular, the user??s home directory or mail spool should probably be renamed manually to reflect the new login name. mv cec_support cec-support mv cec_support_comment cec-support-comment groupmod -n cec-support cec_support groupmod -n cec-support-comment cec_support_comment -n, --new-name NEW_GROUP The name of the group will be changed from GROUP to NEW_GROUP name. -ANGELO FAZZINA ITS Service Manager: Spam and Virus Prevention Mass Mailing G Suite/Gmail angelo at uconn.edu University of Connecticut, ITS, SSG, Server Systems 860-486-9075 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20180629/a15191ba/attachment-0001.html>