> On October 26, 2017 at 5:53 PM tr...@skrilnetz.net wrote: > > > Quoting Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi>: > > >> On October 26, 2017 at 5:40 PM tr...@skrilnetz.net wrote: > >> > >> Quoting Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de>: > >> > >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, tr...@skrilnetz.net wrote: > >> > >> /dovecot: lda(www-data): Error: user www-data: Initialization > >> failed: Namespace '': MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL) failed: Permission > >> denied (euid=33(www-data) egid=33(www-data) missing +w perm: > >> /var/www, dir owned by 1001:1001 mode=0755//) / > >> > >> I did some troubleshooting and I don't understand where > >> the MKDIR(/VAR/WWW/MAIL) is coming from. Mailboxes are in /var/mail > >> and > >> > >> ^^ /var/mail contains the INBOX only > >> > >> sending/receiving emails is working as it always did. > >> > >> mail_location is still setup to be MAIL_LOCATION = > >> MBOX:~/MAIL:INBOX=/VAR/MAIL/%U > >> > >> Everything else is in ~/MAIL (why uppercase?) > >> > >> Why is it trying a mkdir in /var/www? > >> > >> Because most likely /var/www is the home directory of www-data and > >> you've configured to use $HOME/MAIL as base directory, which is > >> /var/www/mail > >> - -- Steffen Kaiser > >> > >> I don't know where the uppercase is coming from. In the email I've > >> sent its lower case. > >> > >> How can I fix that without changing permissions of /var/www? Where is > >> $HOME/MAIL configured? Why do I get this error now for the first time, > >> when there was no change to the system configuration? > > > > Probably someone attempted to send email via a crappy script and > > it's now trying to deliver to www-data. > > > > first_valid_uid = 1001 > > last_valid_uid = 1001 > > > > also, doveconf -n would be useful. > > Aki > > Here is doveconf -n: https://pastebin.com/raw/s6cKwHGc
Home directory is provided by passwd userdb when present in passwd file. to override it, use userdb { driver = passwd override_fields = home=/var/mail/%Lu } Aki