4 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] deamon cannot 'ch...
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ChrisDec 13, 2001 3:31 pm 
Todd LyonsDec 13, 2001 9:02 pm 
ChrisDec 14, 2001 12:36 am 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] deamon cannot 'chdir'Actions...
From:Chris (chr@bcnstech.net)
Date:Dec 14, 2001 12:36:40 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Hi Todd,

Thanks for your answer.. The problem appeared to be that when I entered myself as a user into the auth table I entered an incorrect UID.. Does courier imapd cross reference the UID found in the database with the system? The home directory in the database was correct (/home/chris) and that was the same in /etc/passwd I'm not sure if this was even the problem, but courier appears to be working now. Anyway it boils down to: It was my fault so I'll stop wasting your time ;) Thanks very much for your help

Regards

-- Chris, chr@bcnstech.net on 14/12/2001

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:02:03 -0800, Todd Lyons wrote:

Chris wanted us to know:

Dec 14 10:15:28 stage imapd: chdir: Permission denied

Chances are that you have your user home directory set to /some/home/dir and /some/home/dir/Maildir does not exist. If that's the case, run '/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/maildirmake /some/home/dir/Maildir' and try again. Note that you must be that user when you run this (else it creates it with root permissions, which won't work worth a crap).

Second possible problem, find in the /usr/lib/courier- imap/libexec/imapd.rc file the following line (around line 44): ${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd Maildir" Change it to ${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd ." And see what happens. This is useful if you have the homedir defined as /some/home/dir/Maildir (and it does exist).