[Dovecot] Permissions problems

[Joseph Tam]

<md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error:
> rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot.index.log.newlock,
> /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied
> ...
> This is what the directory currently looks like:
>
> mark at proliant-1:~$ ls -la /mpool/mail
> total 6
> drwxrwxrwx+ 3 root root  3 2013-11-24 17:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root  5 2013-11-24 13:50 ..
> drwxrwxrwx+ 5 mark staff 9 2013-11-24 22:20 mark

I'm think the "+" is the problem: you have, in the words of the manpage for ls,

 	... this character is a plus sign (+) character if a non-trivial
 	ACL is associated with the file ...

Try

 	ls -alv /mpool/mail

I don't use ACLs, so I can help you how to modify them.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>