On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 08:06 +0200, Henrik Larsson wrote:
> I recently upgraded from 2.1.16 to 2.2.2 and started to receive the
> following errors:
> imap(hen...@example.com): Error:
> stat(/var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16128.3209d13f842955c2)
> failed: Permission denied
> imap(hen...@example.com): Error: Temp file creation to
> /var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16128. failed: Permission
> denied
> imap(hen...@example.com): Error:
> stat(/var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16501.0ddff1dc93cdbe6a)
> failed: Permission denied
> imap(hen...@example.com): Error: Temp file creation to
> /var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16501. failed: Permission
> denied
>
> I didn't have these before the upgrade. The current permissions for the
> /var/db/dovecot directory is root:wheel 755.
>
> What would be the correct permissions for the mail_temp_dir directory?
Mail processes (imap, pop3, lda, etc.) need to be able to write to
mail_temp_dir.
> first_valid_uid = 125
..
> userdb {
> args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
> driver = sql
> }
If all of your mail users use UID 125, then 125 can own the directory.
If you use multiple UIDs, it needs to have the same permissions are
your /tmp.
