Re: cannot read contents of parent directory of ... - check permissions and ownership
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Wojtek Swiatek <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to setup getmail to retrieve email from Gmail and I am stuck at > the following error messages (on each retrieved email): > > Delivery error (maildir delivery 22103 error (127, maildir delivery process > failed (cannot read contents of parent directory of > /mnt/1TB1/backup/gmail/mails/ - check permissions and ownership))) That message appears to be correct: > root@srv /m/1/b/gmail# pwd > /mnt/1TB1/backup/gmail > > root@srv /m/1/b/gmail# ls -la > total 32 > drwxr-xr-x 4 wojtek root 4096 Oct 12 11:11 ./ > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Oct 12 11:02 ../ [...] The parent directory - /mnt/1TB1/backup - is only readable/searchable by root. That's exactly what the error message says, so it's correct - non-root processes cannot reach the directory you've specified. Fix the permissions on that dir or move the destination directory somewhere else that is reachable. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------