[TriLUG] Mail server & Dovecot woes fixed

[Sam Folk-Williams]

Glad you got it fixed! And, FYI, I think things like that happen to a
lot of people ;)

On 6/27/05, Lisa C Boyd <lcboyd at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Well, too much to change and learn right now to go to Postfix :) So I
> decided to try and look at Dovecot again and see if I could figure out
> what the problem was. Finally I fixed it! It's one of those annoying
> little simple things that probably would never happen to anyone else but
> me :) But here's what I went through in case you have similar problems.
> 
> ----- My original problem -----
> I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through
> SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users
> are getting this error message:
> 
>  ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
>  Query: CAPABILITY
> 
> Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this:
> 
>  dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user
> --------------------------------
> 
> The solution:
> 
> In /etc/passwd I had setup users (other than myself) so they could not
> go out of their home directory when ftp'ing.
> 
> Example: lisab:x:500:500:Lisa Boyd:/home/lisab/.:/bin/bash
> 
> By removing the /. after /home/lisab, then I could access everything I
> am supposed to through IMAP.
> 
> Talk about hair-pulling troubles from a little dot. Ugh.
> Lisa B.
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