> On 22/09/2023 12:27 EEST sahsanu via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Dovecot 2.3.19.1 and Pigeonhole 0.5.19 on Debian 12.1 and I'm 
> trying to use sieve extensions vacation and redirect but I'm having 
> issues because of the creation of file /home/USER/.dovecot.lda-dupes and 
> dir /home/USER/.dovecot.lda-dupes.locks
> 
> The error in logs is pretty clear, lda doesn't have perms to create any 
> of them because /home/USER/ is owned by root
> # namei -mo /home/user2/
> f: /home/user2/
>   drwxr-xr-x root root /
>   drwxr-xr-x root root home
>   drwxr-xr-x root root user2
> 

Dovecot expects mail user's home to be writable. If your home is not writable 
by the user, you need to set mail_home=~/mail/ or something and make that 
directory writable to dovecot, e.g. with chown.

Aki
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