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AskUbuntu Official Documentation User Documentation Social Media Facebook Twitter Useful Links Distrowatch Bugs: Ubuntu PPAs: Ubuntu Web dovecot mail_location Upd8: Ubuntu OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu Insights Planet Ubuntu Activity Page Please read before SSO login Advanced Search Forum The Ubuntu Forum Community Ubuntu Official Flavours Support General Help dovecot mbox [SOLVED] Dovecot configuring Having an Issue With Posting ? Do you want to help us debug the posting issues ? < is the place to report it, thanks ! Results 1 to 9 of 9 Thread: Dovecot configuring Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode June 6th, 2013 #1 JKyleOKC View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Visit Homepage Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date Sep 2007 Location Oklahoma, USA Beans 2,324 DistroXubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Dovecot configuring I'm getting lots of errors in /var/log/syslog, all similar to this example: Code: Jun 6 11:44:44 mehitabel postfix/qmgr[1761]: 0A50C100034: from=
Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2152042 The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Dovecot configuration error (Permission denied) - Email for root up vote 2 down vote favorite I have setup a local user called postman and logged into it using Thunderbird (IMAP). Following is being shown in the mail error log. Dec 14 23:45:18 ams1 dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more http://serverfault.com/questions/561410/dovecot-configuration-error-permission-denied-email-for-root information. Dec 14 23:45:18 ams1 dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) Dec 14 23:45:18 ams1 dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied Dec 14 23:45:18 ams1 dovecot: lda(root): Error: user root: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: stat(/root/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) How to solve it and how to exclude root from using mail? /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir /etc/postfix/main.cf home_mailbox = Maildir/ Is there a better way of storing emails rather than in /home? email postfix email-server dovecot share|improve this question edited Dec 16 '13 at 0:07 Andrzej A. Filip 3,3551518 asked Dec 14 '13 at 22:56 user176306 Are you connecting to the IMAP server using the user 'root'? Can you screenpaste your thunderbird settings. –tdk2fe Dec 14 '13 at 23:39 No, I am using a local user called 'postman'. Nothing special in the thunderbird setting. Default settings using STARTTLS –user176306 Dec 14 '13 at 23:46 maybe the user postman doesn't has a home, grep postman /etc/passwd and check the postman exists –c4f4t0r
to server log for more information. Next message: [Dovecot] dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-November/086935.html thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Fri, Nov 16, http://superuser.com/questions/748693/dovecot-permission-denied-error-in-logs 2012 at 12:47:52PM -0800, Thufir wrote: > I ran dovecot -a and the blizzard of data seemed ok to my limited > knowledge. Is there another log I should look into to trace this > error down? It's actually a Postfix problem. Postfix is invoking your Dovecot LDA with wrong permission denied permissions. > Dovecot and system info: > > thufir at dur:~$ > thufir at dur:~$ dovecot --version > 2.0.19 > thufir at dur:~$ > thufir at dur:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS" > thufir at dur:~$ > > testing postfix & dovecot > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/dovecot-postfix): > > root at dur:/etc/postfix# > root at dur:/etc/postfix# telnet localhost error setting egid 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 dur.bounceme.net ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) > helo me > 250 dur.bounceme.net > mail from:foo at bar.com Angle brackets are required on envelope addresses (and I bet you don't own bar.com): MAIL FROM:
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign 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 permission denied error in logs up vote 0 down vote favorite I am getting he following errors in the logs eve though there is no 'apply' user in /etc/dovecot/users I'm not sure wat to do next to diagnose. Can anyone advise please? It says 'refer to server log for more information' but I thought this was the server log? May 1 22:40:44 ip-xx-xxx-xx-xx postfix/local[18901]: 1B17763738: to=