On 14.5.2013, at 16.41, andreas graeper <agrae...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 1) > protocols = pop3 > but when starting the service, output tells about imap. when mua fetches > mails ~/mail/.imap/INDEX is created. It should have originally been named .dovecot instead of .imap, but it's way too late to change now. > 2) > i have some users uid=500 .. 505. src in /var/mail/%u, owner is <user>.mail > and home-directories /home/<user> - owner is <user>.users > > when dovecot tries to create directory /home/<user>/mail then it tells for > user xyz (uid = 502) > > euid=502(xyz) egid=100(users) missing +w permission /home/xyz , euid is > not dir owner. > > but /home/xyz is owned by xyz.users and mod = 0700 ( drwx------ ) > > same environment for uid = 501 works great ! Do you have multiple xyz users with different UID numbers? Check with ls -lnd /home/xyz Other than that, maybe SELinux issue.
