dovecot - Dec 2021 - Permission denied

> On 29/12/2021 18:09 Ken Wright <daddywarlock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 09:51 +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > 
> > > On 29/12/2021 05:22 Ken Wright <daddywarlock at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > 
> > > Any further information available upon request!
> > 
> > Maybe systemd is blocking it?
> > 
> > If systemd unit has ProtectSystem=strict or ProtectSystem=full, try
> > adding override.conf with 
> > 
> > [Service]
> > ReadWritePaths=/var/mail
> 
> I checked /etc/systemd but I can't find anything with ProtectSystem
> uncommented.  Am I looking  in the wrong place?
Try

systemctl show dovecot | grep Protect

Aki

On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 18:34 +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 
> > On 29/12/2021 18:09 Ken Wright <daddywarlock at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > ?
> > On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 09:51 +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 29/12/2021 05:22 Ken Wright <daddywarlock at
gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Any further information available upon request!
> > > 
> > > Maybe systemd is blocking it?
> > > 
> > > If systemd unit has ProtectSystem=strict or ProtectSystem=full,
> > > try adding override.conf with 
> > > 
> > > [Service]
> > > ReadWritePaths=/var/mail
> > 
> > I checked /etc/systemd but I can't find anything with
ProtectSystem
> > uncommented.? Am I looking? in the wrong place?
> 
> Try
> 
> systemctl show dovecot | grep Protect
Okay, I did this, and ProtectSystem=full was there.  So I created
override.conf in /etc/systemd as per the above and restarted Dovecot. 
No joy.  Evolution is still begging for a password and Dovecot is still
rejecting it.  And yes, I've verified I'm using the correct  password.