Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >> Is there an automatic solution to this? >> >> Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: >> mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied > > You mean /home/popuser_evelina2 doesn't exist and Dovecot doesn't have > write permissions to /home? Choices would be: > > a) Create the directory automatically whenever you add new users > b) Give Dovecot write permissions to /home > c) If you're using PAM, use pam_mkhomedir > Actually the /home/popuser_evelina2 directory exists. I had thought that we were making the directory. It's just the mail subdirectory that is missing.
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