> On October 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM tr...@skrilnetz.net wrote: > > > Quoting tr...@skrilnetz.net: > > > Quoting Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi>: > > > >>> 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 > > > > Thanks for the quick replies. > > I've checked, and the user database information is stored in > > /home/user/mail/ for every user. > > That works as expected without changing anything. I have still the > > same question… > > Why is it trying to write to /var/www when the mailbox is in > > /var/mail/ and the user data in /home/user/mail/? > > > > > > Ok, got it! > > It's trying to deliver to user www-data and because of below line in > passwd, it attempts to create the dir in www, right? > > /www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin/ > > How can I find out with email is causing the error message?
If you are using postfix, try mailq Aki