[Dovecot] Dovecot v1.0a3 on OpenBSD 3.7

[Brad]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:09:49PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 17:31 -0700, Jeff Simmons wrote:
> > I've been trying to get Dovecot 1.0a3 running on OpenBSD 3.7, with little 
> > luck. I'm getting the following:
> > 
> > Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: 
> > pop3(testuser):open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.mailtest.com.7078.43c0f93e9fecb54a) 
> > failed: Permission denied
> ..
> > I've read in the archives that this can be fixed by setting mail_extra_groups 
> > = mail in dovecot.conf, but OpenBSD has /var/mail owned by root:wheel  mod 
> > 755, and /var/mail files owned by fileowner:users mod 600, and no mail group.
> > 
> > Anyone know how I can fix this?
> 
> Well, in that case I don't know how OpenBSD people thought it would
> work. You have a few choices:
>
> 
> 2) Disable dotlocking entirely and use just flock or fcntl locking
> (mbox_*_lock settings). Just make sure everything else writing to mbox
> files are using the same locking.

Ding ding ding, bingo. This is what you're supposed to do.