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Configuration This page tells you the basics that you'll need to get a working dovecot couldn t open inbox permission denied Dovecot installation. Find Dovecot configuration file location using: doveconf -n | head -n1Your configuration file doesn't exist if you installed Dovecot from sources. dovecot create user The config directory should contain a README file pointing to an example configuration, which you can use as your basic configuration. For example: cp -r /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/* /etc/dovecot/The default configuration starts from dovecot.conf, which contains an !includeconf.d/*.conf statement to read the rest of the configuration. This split of configuration
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files isn't a requirement to use, and it doesn't really matter which .conf file you add any particular setting, just as long as it isn't overridden in another file. You can verify with doveconf-n that everything looks as you intended. Authentication By default Dovecot is set up to use system user authentication. If you're planning on using system users, you can simply skip this section and read PAM (or bsdauth for configuring it. If you're planning on using virtual users, it's easier to first create a simple passwd-like file to make sure that the authentication will work. Later when you know Dovecot is working, you can do it differently (see VirtualUsers). Run as your own non-root user: echo "$USER:{PLAIN}password:$UID:$GID::$HOME" > users sudo mv users /etc/dovecot/You can (and should) replace the "password" with whatever password you wish to use, but d
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Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign http://wiki.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top dovecot can't compact mail folder /var/mail/username up vote 2 down vote favorite 2 ubuntu 11.10 32bit. Setup a dovecot imap server. Using Thunderbird on a different ubuntu machine (64bit) to access imap server. Everything else http://askubuntu.com/questions/118416/dovecot-cant-compact-mail-folder-var-mail-username is fine, except I can not compact the deleted email in inbox, which is stored at /var/mail/username. Checking mail.log and I see this error message: Apr 3 00:10:11 autumn dovecot: imap(username): Error: file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/username) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(username) egid=1000(username) missing +w perm: /var/mail, euid is not dir owner) (set mail_privileged_group=mail) what is wrong with the permission? Here are the permissions for the relevant files: $ ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 mail mail 4096 2012-04-02 23:36 /var/mail $ ls -l /var/mail/username -rw------- 1 username mail 417 2012-04-02 23:36 /var/mail/username Anyone knows what's going on here? permissions mail dovecot share|improve this question asked Apr 3 '12 at 4:27 G. He 59521019 1 I went into /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf, added the group mail to the line "mail_privileged_group = ", stop dovecot, and then start dovecot. It works now. Although I wish this was documented somewhere. –G. He Apr 3 '12 at 11:56 It is documented here. Please convert your comment to an answer and accept it so that this question is not left hanging without an answer. &n
Member i am trying to get Dovecot working, I am almost there. however i see the following errors when my outlook client attempts to do anything within Dovecot. ( I am also concerned with https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/dovecot-permission-problems.54753/ the double // in the path in the error) 2011-11-02 09:44:17 IMAP(frank): Error: opendir(/var/vmail//frank/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=5006(frank) egid=5006(frank) missing +x perm: /var/vmail/) 2011-11-02 09:44:17 IMAP(frank): Error: stat(/var/vmail//frank/Maildir) failed: Permission denied 2011-11-02 09:44:17 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7132274?start=0&tstart=0 IMAP(frank): Error: stat(/var/vmail//frank/Maildir/.Sent/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5006(frank) egid=5006(frank) missing +x perm: /var/vmail/) this is the actual directory /var/vmail/kahle.net/frank/Maildir this is whats in the directory: drwxrwx--- 9 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 23:06 . permission denied drwxrwx--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:54 .. -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 47 Oct 31 16:54 courierimapsubscribed drwxrwx--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:53 cur -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 3552 Oct 31 23:06 dovecot.index.log -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 1879 Oct 31 23:06 dovecot-uidlist -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 8 Oct 31 16:53 dovecot-uidvalidity -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 31 16:53 dovecot-uidvalidity.4eaf0acb drwxrwx--- 5 vmail dovecot permission denied vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:54 .Drafts drwxrwx--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:54 .Junk drwxrwx--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 23:06 new drwxrwx--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:54 .Sent -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 23 Oct 31 16:54 subscriptions drwxrwx--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 23:06 tmp drwxrwx--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:54 .Trash and outlook reports "The server responded: 'NOPERM] No permission to read subscriptions'. /var/vmail permissions drwxrwx--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:53 vmail [[emailprotected] vmail]# ls -al |more total 48 drwxrwx--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:53 . drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 Nov 1 00:30 .. -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 33 Oct 31 16:01 .bash_logout -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 176 Oct 31 16:01 .bash_profile -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 124 Oct 31 16:01 .bashrc -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 515 Oct 31 16:01 .emacs drwxrwx--- 4 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:54 kahle.net -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 1382 Oct 31 16:01 .mailfilter drwxrwx--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:01 mailfilters drwxrwx--- 4 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 31 16:01 .mozilla -rwxrwx--- 1 vmail vmail 658 Oct 31 16:01 .zshrc protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s disabl
enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. AppStudioNl Level 1 (0 points) Q: Dovecot mkdir() failed: Permission Denied After updating to the latest version of the Server App, we can't login to our mail accounts. Calandar, Open Directory is working.Hope somebody can help.Server versions:OSX 10.10.4Server 4.1.3This is repeated in mail-err.log a couple of times a second:Jul 16 15:30:54 auth: Error: mkdir(/Volumes/DataHD/ServiceData/Mail/users) failed: Permission deniedJul 16 15:30:54 imap: Error: Internal auth failure (client-pid=74346 client-id=1247)The Server App Migration (on first startup after upgrade or delete/restore) also stops with errors on Calander and Profilemanager. When investigating I notices the new Server App changed the permissions of all contents of /Volumes/DataHD/ServiceDataIncluding the Mail data. I have changed the permissions on the Mail folder (and subfolders) all ready.drwx------ 3 _calendar _calendar 102 21 jan 2010 AddressBookdrwx------ 10 _calendar _calendar 340 16 jul 12:09 Calendar and Contacts Datadrwx------ 6 _calendar _calendar 204 16 jul 15:20 Configdrwx------ 3 _calendar _calendar 102 11 jul 04:16 Datadrwx------ 2 _calendar _calendar 68 21 jan 2010 FTPdrwx------ 3 _calendar _calendar 102 3 jul 2013 Jabberdrwx------ 209 _calendar _calendar 7106 16 jul 15:31 Logsdrwxrwxr-x 28 _dovecot mail 952 16 jul 14:35 Maildrwx------ 19 _calendar _calendar 646 17 sep 2012 MySQLdrwx------ 11 _calendar _calendar 374 21 jan 2010 QTSSdrwx------ 3 _calendar _calendar 102 3 jul 2013 SoftwareUpdatedrwx------ 4 _calendar _calendar 136 21 jan 2010 WebWhat I tried so far is:- Delete the Server app, and reinstall it (also with the previous version of the App)- Changed permissions on /Mail and /Mail/users- Renamed "/Volumes/DataHD/ServiceData/Mail/users" to users_old (same errors, users does not reappear)- Rebooted the system (a couple of times)- Check file permissions in the disk utility is grayed out- This post Repair Server Permissions - serveradmin fullstatus mail:mail:postfixStartedTime = "2015-07-16 13:20:31 +0000"mail:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1mail:serviceStatus = "ENABLED"mail:servicePortsRestrictionInfo = _