[Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied

2013-05-08 Thread Earles, Jill
I've been pouring over the documentation for dovecot, but can't find a solution to this problem. I recently took over administration of the dovecot email service at the University where I work, and things were going smoothly. We've been creating email accounts for use with JIRA, a bug reportin

Re: [Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied

2013-05-08 Thread Earles, Jill
Thank you very much for your quick response. Problem solved (see below for details). On 2013-05-08, at 6:47 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: > At 12AM + on 9/05/13 you (Earles, Jill) wrote: >> I've been pouring over the documentation for dovecot, but can't find a >> sol

Re: [Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied

2013-05-08 Thread Earles, Jill
t; At 2AM +0000 on 9/05/13 you (Earles, Jill) wrote: >>>> >>>> May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: pop3(lib.sysadmin): Error: >>>> stat(/var/spool/mail/lib.sysadmin) failed: Permission denied >>> >>> This is interesting: normally stat only fails i

Re: [Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied

2013-05-08 Thread Earles, Jill
0750 seems to work just fine. I would like to know about MTA and MDA if you're willing to give me a quick rundown. Thank you very much for all of your help. On 2013-05-08, at 9:11 PM, "Earles, Jill" wrote: > Wow, that is a lot of detail. Thank you very much. I a

Re: [Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied

2013-05-08 Thread Earles, Jill
, Ben, for writing all you have about this. I know a lot more about this system that I did before I made this mistake, which is great. Cheers On 2013-05-08, at 9:25 PM, "Earles, Jill" wrote: > 0750 seems to work just fine. > > I would like to know about MTA and MDA if you

Re: [Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied

2013-05-08 Thread Earles, Jill
Thank you very much for the additional context. On 2013-05-08, at 9:40 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: > At 4AM + on 9/05/13 you (Earles, Jill) wrote: >> Wow, that is a lot of detail. Thank you very much. I appreciate the >> Unix security perspective - that's something I&#x