virtual_localdelivery defer (13): Permission denied: stat()

[Invader Zim]

We've got a user whose username is completely numerical (5 digits, although I doubt this really matters). When email comes for one of the domains in this user account we see the following in /var/log/exim/mainlog

[email protected] R=virtual_user T=virtual_localdelivery defer (13): Permission denied: stat() error for /home/USER/imap/domain.tld/emailaddress/Maildir: Permission denied

There were a lof of these mails in the queue earlier today. After running

/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/set_permissions.sh set_user_home USER

and forced exim to deliver the emails they got through but after restarting exim we again got permission denied.

Now there's emails in the queue again and the previous workaround doesn't seem to have the same effect anymore. The permissions on the imap tree are correct and so are the ownerships.

 

[Invader Zim]

Renamed user to include a letter. Problem has been solved.