On 19.09.2017 05:28, Nelson Crosby wrote: > Greetings all. > > I've been having great difficulty getting Dovecot working. I'm getting > stuck with using mbox directories outside of /home. Dovecot keeps giving > me this message: > > imap(ncrosby): Namespace '': stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: > Permis > sion denied (euid=1001(ncrosby) egid=1001(ncrosby) missing +w perm: > /var/lo > gmail/mbox/ncrosby stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permission > denie > d, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) in=0 out=340 > > I've tried letting Dovecot create this directory, I've tried creating this > directory manually and giving it any permission I can think of, I've tried > playing about with the permissions throughout the entire /var/logmail tree, > but to no avail. > > Below is my setup. I appreciate any input. > > Here's `tree -apug /var/logmail`: > > /var/logmail > ├── [drwx------ root root ] lost+found > ├── [drwxr-xr-x root root ] mbox
this is owned by root, and it's complaining about /var/logmail/**mbox**/ncrosby and dovecot cannot create this because mbox is only writable by root Aki
