hey,

i have been facing a very fatel error with dovecot..
i am getting this error in my dovecot.log file

dovecot: Feb 13 15:21:02 Fatal: chdir(/var/mail/folders/user1) failed with uid 1001: Permission denied
dovecot: Feb 13 15:21:02 Error: child 18732 (imap) returned error 89
dovecot: Feb 13 15:22:01 Warning: Killed with signal 15

i have been googling the solution from the last two days and still didn't got the solution.i think it has something to be done with the permissions.let me post you my file permissions for /var/mail/folders/user1

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 13:56 /var/mail/folders/


-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1458 Feb 13 13:56 user1

if you find any loophole with this.then please let me know as well...this thing had screwed up my head..


waiting fro your reply...

what is the permission on home directory of user?

hey thnxx for replying me on this....
the permission for the user1 home directory is

drwx------ 3 user1 user1 4096 Feb 14 01:55 user1

so should i change the permission for this....??
because i tried doing that by giving 766 permission to this directory
still with the same error...

waiting for you reply

dont give write permission for others

try 755 on the user directory

hey

i tried it as u said by giving the permission 755 on user1 home directory
still the error exists...
i dont understand where i have made it wrong.please help me in resolving this...any additional information u need just let me know,i ll provide you but for god sake..help me in solving this issue...