Dear All, I'm using version 2.1.7 which currently ships with debian stable.
I'd like to use userdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail override_fields = skip = never result_failure = continue result_internalfail = continue result_success = return-ok } from [1]. The error message is: Jan 25 14:02:03 post1 dovecot: lda(chris): Error: user chris: Initialization failed: Namespace '': stat(/home/vmail/chris/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(chris) egid=1000(chris) missing +x perm: /home/vmail/chris, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0700) The skip and result_* commands aren't supported. My users file: chris:{MD5-CRYPT}$1$3uC3URg......:::/home/vmail/chris/:/bin/false:: Dovecot should access the Maildir with vmail:vmail (1001:1001) and not chris:chris (1000:1000)! Thank you in advance! - Chris [1] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase