[Dovecot] expire plugin - setgid failed

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 3 21:37:52 EEST 2008


On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:27 PM, e-frog wrote:

> I'm still having problems to get the expire plugin working. Now I  
> get the following error when running the expire-tool.
>
> Error: stat(/root/mail/.Trash/tmp) failed: Permission denied  
> (euid=2005 egid=100)
>
> Somehow it tries to access root's mailbox with a standard user  
> account. I'm already on v1.1rc8.

I guess it takes /root from $HOME environment? What happens if you  
unset HOME before running expire-tool? Or do you really have a root  
user in the expire database? (why/how?)

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