Thanks - I hadn't seen that before. If I'm understanding what you're getting at, you're referring to:
Modify mail_location setting so that the mail root directory is also the empty directory and append :INDEX=MEMORY to it. For example: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY Which unfortunately, doesn't work. Even with these settings, or putting mbox, INBOX, INDEX all in /var/mail - dovecot still fails after successful authentication with an error that it can't chdir to the mail user's home directory; which, of course, it can't - but again, it shouldn't need to. -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 4/7/2007 10:43 AM To: Brent Nesbitt Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] chdir failed, but requires group permissions On 7.4.2007, at 20.35, Brent Nesbitt wrote: > However, it seems odd to me that Dovecot would REQUIRE access to > the $HOME directory, when I am only using it to pop mail from /var/ > mail (which it has full access to) - and I am not using imap access > at all. Well, you don't HAVE to give Dovecot any home directory at all. See the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox
