[Dovecot] Dovecot DELIVER

[Bruce Bodger]

On May 16, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:53 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:58 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
>>> May 16 06:29:56 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with
>>> mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied
>>
>> See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox#dotlocks
>
> Hmm. Actually with deliver the mail_extra_groups doesn't work. So I
> think you have two possibilities:
>
> 1. Set /var/mail sticky
> 2. Don't use dotlocks (but if you use other programs to access the
> mboxes make sure they don't break)

Set dovecot user back to its own group.

I set /var/mail to sticky...

drwxrwxr-t   10 root    mail     340 May 16 08:11 mail

Still get this:

May 16 08:11:31 G518X2 deliver(bb): open(/var/mail/bb.lock) failed:  
Permission denied
May 16 08:11:31 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with  
mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied
May 16 08:11:31 G518X2 deliver(bb):  
msgid=<7e0d81210705160511o3567917yb65b77e91e3cc13a at mail.gmail.com>:  
save failed to INBOX
May 16 08:11:31 G518X2 deliver(bb): open(/var/mail/bb.lock) failed:  
Permission denied
May 16 08:11:31 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with  
mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied

Bruce