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bim

Posted: Dec 24 2004, 03:27 AM

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I've been trying to solve this problem for hours now and still haven't moved on a bit.

I'm using Fedora Core 3. I added the user "wwwrun" and am now runnen apache as that user (checked it with "ps -ef | grep httpd"). I installed IlohaMail from RPM (which likes to think wwwrun is the user apache uses, that's why I changed that). I double checked if wwwrun should have write access to the data folder and all its subfolders... I even logged in as wwwrun with ssh and tried making that directory. It worked!

But in IlohaMail I still get "Couldn't create user dir" when I try to log in to an account.

I wrote this little script for testing:

QUOTE

<?php

if(@mkdir("/home/wwwrun/test")) {
$error .= "yes";
}else{
$error .= "no";
}

echo $error;

?>

It returns "no", while apache is running is "wwwrun" and (obviously) /home/wwwrun is owned by wwwrun and the owner has read, write an execute permissions.

Does anybody know what might be going wrong?

atomant	Posted: Dec 24 2004, 06:41 AM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 1776 Member No.: 427 Joined: 18-January 03	Check permissions on IlohaMail folder. They need to be owned by wwwrun. By default all files are in /var/www. -------------------- Bye, Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------- All electric machines work on smoke...when the smoke escape from machines, they don't work anymore Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"

bim

Posted: Dec 24 2004, 10:47 AM

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QUOTE (atomant @ Dec 24 2004, 07:41 AM)

Check permissions on IlohaMail folder. They need to be owned by wwwrun. By default all files are in /var/www.

Yes, tried that. Did a
chown -R -v wwwrun htdocs
from /var/www (IlohaMail is in /var/www/htdocs/IlohaMail).

I also did a chown -R -v wwwrun ilohamail in /usr/lib. Because /var/www/htdocs/IlohaMail really is a virtual link to /usr/lib/ilohamail.

And I still get that error...

any ideas?

atomant	Posted: Dec 24 2004, 09:40 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 1776 Member No.: 427 Joined: 18-January 03	Try to move from /usr/lib to /var/www/htdocs and test again. -------------------- Bye, Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------- All electric machines work on smoke...when the smoke escape from machines, they don't work anymore Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"

bim	Posted: Dec 27 2004, 02:15 AM
Advanced Wizard Group: Members Posts: 489 Member No.: 297 Joined: 6-October 02	Sorry for not getting back on this... I got it working. I however am not 100% sure how :-( It could have been because I disabled SELinux... But I didn't really like the result... IlohaMail is a really basic webmail client that doesn't support folders for a POP3 mailserver (like UebiMiau did, however buggy it may be). So I'm now banging my head on OpenWebmail, but not having much luck with that either... Might be changing back to Fedora Core 2 or do a complete fresh install of Core 3... I'll keep you posted.

BooT	Posted: Jan 11 2005, 05:59 PM
Guru Group: Members Posts: 747 Member No.: 375 Joined: 29-November 02	I like IlohaMail It is very fast..... But would love to have folders included... but no luck there aswell.... And Ubi...It is 2 slow.... So sticking to IlohaMail now. -------------------- ________________________________________________________________________________ --= Running XMail Server 1.22 on Windows 2003 Virtual Server Since 16 August 2006 =-- [--- Ran Xmail on 2000 Server till Aug 2006 ---] [--- 1.21 From 21 June 2005 till 15 Jan 2006---] [--- 1.20 From 20 July 2004 till 21 June 2005---] [--- 1.17 From 20 October 2003 till 20 July 2004---]

atomant	Posted: Jan 11 2005, 08:07 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 1776 Member No.: 427 Joined: 18-January 03	Just be patient, IMAP is comming...don't know when but soon -------------------- Bye, Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------- All electric machines work on smoke...when the smoke escape from machines, they don't work anymore Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"

bim	Posted: Jan 11 2005, 08:44 PM
Advanced Wizard Group: Members Posts: 489 Member No.: 297 Joined: 6-October 02	I'm now using Uebimiau from http://vermue.dutchosting.info/ and rather like it. Some bugs have been fixed. I have it installed on a brand new server, so don't have any problems with the speed...

BooT	Posted: Jan 11 2005, 08:51 PM
Guru Group: Members Posts: 747 Member No.: 375 Joined: 29-November 02	Bim.... Which version u using? -------------------- ________________________________________________________________________________ --= Running XMail Server 1.22 on Windows 2003 Virtual Server Since 16 August 2006 =-- [--- Ran Xmail on 2000 Server till Aug 2006 ---] [--- 1.21 From 21 June 2005 till 15 Jan 2006---] [--- 1.20 From 20 July 2004 till 21 June 2005---] [--- 1.17 From 20 October 2003 till 20 July 2004---]

bim	Posted: Jan 12 2005, 12:58 AM
Advanced Wizard Group: Members Posts: 489 Member No.: 297 Joined: 6-October 02	I'm using 2.7.8. You'll first need to install the 2.7.8 RC you can download from the Uebimiau website and then copy over some files from the file you can download from http://vermue.dutchosting.info/ since he doesn't distribute a complete version.

royblack	Posted: Jan 15 2005, 05:31 PM
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 27 Member No.: 1031 Joined: 11-April 04	I faced this problem, couldn't create user dirs. It fixed simply: Create INBOX.NewDir instead of creating NewDir. This relates only Courier-IMAP because its structure. Hope it will help.

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