[Dovecot] POP3 fails on non-existent inbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13.7.2004, at 17:36, Kenneth Porter wrote:

>> Or actually, does the user have access to create new files in
>> /var/spool/mail? Looks like Dovecot doesn't complain if it can't 
>> create
>> it. I'll change that.
>
> No. On Fedora Core 2:
>
> [ken at newred spool]$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root mail 4096 Jul 13 07:29 /var/spool/mail

Right. Dovecot doesn't really like if INBOX doesn't exist. I don't know 
if I'll bother fixing it, as it tries to create it anyway and it's 
pretty much required to be able to do it with IMAP..

Setting "mail_extra_groups = mail" should help.
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