Dovecot with SELinux

[Bart Couvreur]

2006/2/4, Patrick Nelson <pnelson at neatech.com>:
> I have a need (testing) to set up a POP3 server.  I kind of need a quick
> solution so I picked dovecot.  It installed fine with the requirement of
> mysql.
>
> I used the default dovecot.conf and service dovecot start <- OK
>
> Then I added a user with  adduser testuser and passwd testuser
>
> Then I tried to log in with  telnet localhost 110, USER testuser <-OK ,
> and PASS xxxxx <-OK
>
> However I get a error in maillog about permission problems with
> /home/testuser.
>
> Search the archives and found some mention of this being associated to
> SELinux.  I did google and find that selinux-policy-strict-sources would
> give the ability to use dovecot with SELinux.
>
> Has anyone found this to be true?  Or has there been some other way of
> getting it working without dumping SELinux?
>

Maybe this could help:
# restorecon /home

I remeber having seen simallar errors in maillog which disappeard
after doning this command.

Ciao,
Bart