[Dovecot] dovecot:IMAP(user) killed with signal 6

[Odhiambo WASHINGTON]

* On 16/11/06 16:17 +0100, Spil Oss wrote:
| Just upgraded to rc14 and problem persists.
| 
| On 16/11/06, Spil Oss <spil.oss at googlemail.com> wrote:
| >Hi all,
| >
| >After rc10 I have problems with imap and imaps
| >
| >Hi all,
| >
| >After rc10 I have problems with imap and imaps
| >
| >Nov 16 15:42:39 beastie dovecot: IMAP(user1):
| >open(/home/user1/Maildir/.MeldWelSpam/dovecot-keywords) failed:
| >Permission denied
| >Nov 16 15:44:09 beastie dovecot: IMAP(user2):
| >open(/home/user2/Maildir/.MeldWelSpam/dovecot-keywords) failed:
| >Permission denied
| >Nov 16 15:44:09 beastie dovecot: IMAP(user2): file maildir-keywords.c:
| >line 222 (maildir_keywords_lookup_or_create): assertion failed:
| >(mk->synced)
| >Nov 16 15:44:09 beastie dovecot: child 98798 (imap) killed with signal 6
| >Nov 16 15:46:10 beastie dovecot: IMAP(user2):
| >open(/home/user2/Maildir/.MeldWelSpam/dovecot-keywords) failed:
| >Permission denied
| >Nov 16 15:46:10 beastie dovecot: IMAP(user2): file maildir-keywords.c:
| >line 222 (maildir_keywords_lookup_or_create): assertion failed:
| >(mk->synced)
| >Nov 16 15:46:10 beastie dovecot: child 98819 (imap) killed with signal 6
| >
| >The Permission denied messages where there in rc10 as well, but that
| >was not causing problems. These folders are symlinks to shared spam
| >and ham folders for spamassassin learning.
| >
| >Any clue on how to fix this?
| >
| >FreeBSD-i386 6.1-RELEASE-p10
| >dovecot-1.0.r13 from ports

"Permission Denied" is such a straight error message that you should be
able to figure out and fix, everything being standard[1]

What are the permissions on that folder (.MeldWelSpam)?
Is it really owned by user2?
Dovecot wants to write to it, but is being denied that chance. It should 
be writable by dovecot, I believe. So that folder should be group 
writable and dovecot should be in that group.

But again, perhaps we should see the permissions on the dovecot binary
also, because dovecot should be writing there "as user2" (suid), yes?


[1] I suppose you are installing dovecot using the ports tree and that
    you have not tweaked your box beyond your own comprehension.
    I don't see


-Wash

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