Mail permissions

something_different

• October 05, 2015 16:53

Hello everyone, I'd like to know what's correct permission for /home/user/mail/.user@domain.com ? As I know it should be set to 751, however, it's set to 777 by default, and running "repair mailbox permission" is not fixing it. I'm facing this error "dovecot_login authenticator failed for xxxxxxxxxxx 535 Incorrect authentication data" and clients are blocked in csf ( even if they are using correct user/password ). Checking on Google and this forum, it's advised to repair mailbox permissions, but is 777 permission correct? Any help or advice would be great. Thanks!

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  Jcats

  • October 05, 2015 22:57

  That's a symlink, wouldn't worry about that. You want to make sure etc is correct as that's what holds the user/pw
  chown -R $user: /home/$user/etc ; chown $user:mail /home/$user/etc /home/$user/etc/passwd* /home/$user/etc/quota*
  Are you able to reproduce that yourself though, can you get one of their email / passwords and see if you can log into webmail, if no, try to set that password in cPanel, then try webmail again.

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 05, 2015 23:48

  Hello :) Try reviewing /var/log/maillog and /var/log/exim_mainlog when attempting to reproduce the error message to see if you notice any additional output. Thank you.

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