Dovecot Error...

[yugpatel]

I tried to follow the guide at http://arstechnica.com/information-...rt-2-arming-your-server-with-postfix-dovecot/ to set up e-mail server on Ubuntu, but I am getting this error and I don't know how to fix it.
Can any one guide me?

Mar 24 09:41:23 mailserver dovecot: lda(johnDoe): Error: user johnDoe: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: mkdir(/var/mail/vmail//johnDoel/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(johnDoe) egid=1000(johnDoe) missing +w perm: /var/mail/vmail/, dir owned by 5000:5000 mode=0755)

I have followed all instructions in the guide but somehow I am getting this permission issue error.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I've never run that before, but reading the error, check to see that you started dovecot with sudo.

type cat /etc/passwd and see what user is 5000. That is who owns /var/mail/vmail and likely needs to run the service

 

[yugpatel]

I've never run that before, but reading the error, check to see that you started dovecot with sudo.

type cat /etc/passwd and see what user is 5000. That is who owns /var/mail/vmail and likely needs to run the service

vmail:x:5000:5000::/var/mail/vmail:/bin/sh
So vmail is user 5000.