On 3/20/2012 1:29 PM, Mark Jeghers wrote: > All, > > Below is my config. When I run dovecot from xinetd, I get these errors in > the log: > > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<mark>, > method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=11624, secured > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Effective uid=500, > gid=100, home=/home/mark > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: fs: > root=/var/spool/mailpop3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mailpop3/mark > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: > stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Namespace : Using > permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: > stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Namespace : Using > permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: > stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: > Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. > [2012-03-20 11:13:39] > Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, > retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 > > ...it acts as if it has no file permission, but it seems like it certainly > should. Here is the files it is trying to access: > > [root@t4pserver2 ~]# ls -al /var/spool/mailpop3/ > total 248656 > drwxrwxrwx. 3 mail mail 4096 Mar 20 00:31 . > drwxr-xr-x. 17 root root 4096 Mar 18 18:22 .. > -rw-rw-r--. 1 ann users 58739 Mar 17 04:26 ann > -rw-rw-r--. 1 annphone users 2708345 Mar 17 05:22 annphone > -rw-rw-r--. 1 mail users 127272960 Mar 18 18:28 backups.tar > -rw-rw-r--. 1 crimsonblues users 327563 Dec 3 14:38 crimsonblues > drwxrwxrwx. 3 mark users 4096 Mar 20 00:31 .imap > -rw-rw-r--. 1 mark users 0 Mar 18 13:09 mark > -rw-rw-r--. 1 markphone users 124147068 Mar 18 04:21 markphone > -rw-rw-r--. 1 nathan users 5119 Dec 22 18:52 nathan > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root users 0 Mar 18 13:13 root > -rw-rw-r--. 1 testuser users 58739 Mar 18 18:42 testuser > -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim users 16212 Mar 18 15:51 tim
The group owner of these files is "users". Should probably be "mail". E.g. $ ls -la /var/spool/mail/ total 724K drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4.0K Jan 19 01:16 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Jun 2 2011 .. -rw------- 1 stan mail 707K Mar 20 21:32 stan Ownership of /var/spool/mailpop3 should probably be root:mail instead of mail:mail. And given that 'mail' is a standard group name, it's probably not wise to have an actual user named 'mail', as you've done here. -- Stan