[TriLUG] Dovecot conf question/error

mark at thefowles.com mark at thefowles.com
Fri Jun 10 12:53:09 EDT 2005


I think the fix was to ln -s libcom_error.so.2 libcom_error.so.3

~ Mark

> I'm in the process of switching my web server from RH7.3 to Fedora 3
> (yeah I know it's taken me long enough!). All users home directories
> have been switched over and other preferences. I am setting up dovecot
> for imap and I'm running into a problem.
>
> 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
>
> Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in
> home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to
> those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf
> file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account
> and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup
> the same (same maildir format, etc.).
>
> Thanks for any help :)
> Lisa B.
>
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