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Dear all,


I have configure the virtualmail server using exim as MTA and postfixadmin and dovecot. But when i configured the try to send an email using thunderbird , Evolution i get this pop up

Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
Bad authentication response from server.

el@redhat.com>: saved mail to INBOX
Nov 26 13:18:33 localhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<test@linux.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.20.19, lip=192.168.20.19, secured
Nov 26 13:18:33 localhost dovecot: IMAP(test@linux.com): stat(/home/vmail/linux.com/test/cur) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:18:33 localhost dovecot: IMAP(test@linux.com): opendir(/home/vmail/linux.com/test) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:18:42 localhost dovecot: IMAP(test@linux.com): stat(/home/vmail/linux.com/test/cur) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:18:47 localhost dovecot: IMAP(vijay@linux.com): stat(/home/vmail/linux.com/vijay/cur) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:18:47 localhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<vijay@linux.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.20.19, lip=192.168.20.19, secured
Nov 26 13:18:47 localhost dovecot: IMAP(vijay@linux.com): opendir(/home/vmail/linux.com/vijay) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:18:47 localhost dovecot: IMAP(vijay@linux.com): stat(/home/vmail/linux.com/vijay/cur) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:20:06 localhost dovecot: IMAP(vijay@linux.com): stat(/home/vmail/linux.com/vijay/cur) failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 13:20:06 localhost dovecot: IMAP(test@linux.com): stat(/home/vmail/linux.com/test/cur) failed: Permission denied
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It is permission problem set permission correctly on mail dir.
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It is permission problem set permission correctly on mail dir.


what permission should i set on mail dir.Thanks in advance for suggestion.
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You need to use email server user name. For example, I'm using Postfix mail server and user permission settings are set to postfixostfix
Code:
 ls -ld /usr/local/virtual/
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drwx------  6 postfix  postfix  512 Nov 18 18:54 /usr/local/virtual/
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