Alright, I think I understand. By fixing the other side do you mean I could add mail_uid=0 and mail_gid=0 in dovecot.conf? to match the current mails permissions. We are migrating a server over and we ran into this snag when transferring Maildirs over
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 10:12 +0200, Thomas Leuxner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 02:52:55PM -0500, Max Dunlap wrote: > > The permissions are: > > -rw------- 1 root root 7609 2011-07-05 > > 16:06 /home/dlambert/Maildir/cur/msg.COmK:2,ST > > > > What's so difficult about this? > > [ Log excerpt ] > Jul 7 13:44:18 mail-breakaway dovecot: IMAP(dlambert): > open(/home/dlambert/Maildir/cur/msg.COmK:2,ST) failed: Permission denied > (euid=1002(dlambert) egid=1002(dlambert) missing +r perm: > /home/dlambert/Maildir/cur/msg.COmK:2,ST) > > [ Conf excerpt ] > auth default: > passdb: > driver: pam > userdb: > driver: passwd > > You are accessing the maildir structure using UID 1002 but the directory > is owned by UID 1. Needs to be fixed on either side... > > Please visit these links and have a look at the quote below: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM > http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Passwd > > [...] This uses the UID and GID fields from passwd, but home directory > is overridden. Also the default mail_location setting is overridden. > > Thomas
