On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:38 +0100, Andreas Kossack wrote: > we use dovecot 2.0.11 with local (LDAP based) users and see (occasionally) > error messages like > "Mar 15 09:29:26 MailServ local3:err|error dovecot: imap(xxxx): Error: > creat(/dovecot.mailbox.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=1985(xxxx) > egid=219(yyyy) stat() failed: No such file or directory, euid is not dir > owner)
It's trying to open a file from root directory. Maybe that user's home directory is set to /?