5 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop[maildropl] Re: How can I solve this ...
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User listsJun 10, 2004 3:45 am 
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Subject:[maildropl] Re: How can I solve this problem ??Actions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Jun 10, 2004 4:01:45 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

User lists writes:

Hi all,

This is my first post to this list. I can´t find any solution to this problem (google, postfix lists, etc). i will try to configure maildrop for delivery mail with quotas, but at this moment it´s impossible to do this.

Error was:

"(temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: Changing to /var/spool/postfix/virtual /usr/local/courier/bin/maildrop: Unable to change to home directory. )".

How can I fix this ??? i´m so tired about this problem ...

Only you know how to fix this problem, because only you knows what you have installed on your server, and how it is configured.

The above error message tells you exactly what the problem is:

/usr/local/courier/bin/maildrop: Unable to change to home directory.

That is, after determine the account the message should be delivered to, maildrop attempted to change to the account's home directory, and failed.

Why, well, there could literally be thousands of reasons:

1. Wrong permissions on the home directory.

2. Wrong permissions on the maildrop binary.

3. Your mail server is misconfigured and is not invoking maildrop with the correct arguments. Since you did not even bother to mention which mail server you're using, nothing much more can be said about it.

I could go on, but you get the idea.