I've gotten errors like this when it was actually a selinux denial. If you're running selinux, check those logs too.
Bill On 1/16/2017 4:09 PM, Mark Foley wrote:
More info ... This is the only user having this permission problem. All other Thunderbird/dovecot users are getting mail file. They all have the same permissions set on their Maildir folder. --Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Foley <mfo...@ohprs.org> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:21:31 -0500 Organization: Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Apparent Maildir permission issue I've just upgraded from Slackware 14.1 to 14.2. I've not done anything with dovecot -- it's the same version that was running before the upgrade. However, now I'm getting a permission error: /var/log/maillog: Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: opendir(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +r perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark)) Jan 16 13:09:44 mail last message repeated 4 times Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: stat(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/.Trash) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +x perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark)) Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: stat(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +x perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark)) Jan 16 13:09:44 mail dovecot: imap(mark): Error: opendir(/home/HPRS/mark/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=3000026(HPRS\mark) egid=100(users) missing +r perm: /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir, conflicting dir uid=10001(HPRS\mark)) Jan 16 13:09:45 mail last message repeated 11 times Permission on that folder are: $ ls -ld /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir drwx------ 17 HPRS\mark domusers 4096 Dec 7 23:07 /home/HPRS/mark/Maildir/ Permissions are unchanged since before the backup. What do I do to fix this? THX --Mark
