> On 22/09/2023 13:30 EEST sahsanu via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > > > Dovecot expects mail user's home to be writable. If your home is not > > writable by the user, you need to set mail_home=~/mail/ or something > > and make that directory writable to dovecot, e.g. with chown. > > > > Aki > > > Hello Aki, > > I tried to change mail_home to several options (I've restarted dovecot > after each test): > > mail_home = %h/mail/%d/%n > mail_home = ~/mail/%d/%n > > I've even created a new dir (/dupes/) with 777 perms > > mail_home = /dupes/ > > But I'm still viewing in the logs that it is trying to use /home/USER/ > > Sep 22 12:25:47 > lda(postmas...@domain2.tld)<48129><kwMQFqtrDWUBvAAAElSLcQ>: Error: > duplicate db: transaction: > file_dotlock_open(/home/user2/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: Permission > denied > > Sep 22 12:25:47 > lda(postmas...@domain2.tld)<48129><kwMQFqtrDWUBvAAAElSLcQ>: Error: > duplicate db: transaction: Failed to lock > /home/user2/.dovecot.lda-dupes.locks/duplicate.lock.b0be0da6c6a062c630bb7aa8dd72846a: > > mkdir_parents(/home/user2/.dovecot.lda-dupes.locks) failed: Permission > denied > > > Thank you.
I'm guessing your userdb or passdb is returning home for user, so you need to fix that to point to correct place, or drop it. Aki _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
