Oops, you confused me by giving Postfix config, which is completely irrelevant here. Replace "deliver mails" with "access mails".
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 08:02 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 21:09 -0700, Daminto Lie wrote: > > > Aug 31 13:50:57 server1 dovecot: IMAP(mike_lee): > > mkdir(/home/mike_lee/Maildir/.INBOX.Sent/cur) failed: Permission denied > > (euid=1004 egid=1003(companyusergroup) missing +w perm: /home) > > > > What I have tried to do is changing the permission for /home by typing > > "sudo chmod 755 /home" and this does not work. What does it mean by missing > > +w perm: /home? and wonder how to get around it? > > It means that Dovecot tries to deliver mails to mike_lee's Maildir, > but /home/mike_lee/ directory itself doesn't exist, so Dovecot tries to > create it, but it fails because the process doesn't have write > permissions to /home. > > The best way to fix this would be to simply create the user home dirs > with proper permissions before Dovecot ever tries to deliver mails to > the user. > >
