Thanks a lot Timo, Creating directories for new users is not an issue. It's the permission that makes me headache. I tried the following
sudo chmod o-r /home/$USER sudo chmod g+rw /home/$USER It did not work until I did chmod 777 /home. Is it safe to make home directory with permission 777? Thanks ________________________________ From: Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> To: Daminto Lie <dli...@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot imap permission denied On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 21:09 -0700, Daminto Lie wrote: > Aug 31 13:50:57 server1 dovecot: IMAP(mike_lee): > mkdir(/home/mike_lee/Maildir/.INBOX.Sent/cur) failed: Permission denied > (euid=1004 egid=1003(companyusergroup) missing +w perm: /home) > > What I have tried to do is changing the permission for /home by typing "sudo > chmod 755 /home" and this does not work. What does it mean by missing +w > perm: /home? and wonder how to get around it? It means that Dovecot tries to deliver mails to mike_lee's Maildir, but /home/mike_lee/ directory itself doesn't exist, so Dovecot tries to create it, but it fails because the process doesn't have write permissions to /home. The best way to fix this would be to simply create the user home dirs with proper permissions before Dovecot ever tries to deliver mails to the user.
