[Dovecot] Maildir delete folder error

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 19 07:36:34 EET 2008


On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 16:09 +0100, Peter Tambach wrote:
> I'm getting errors when I try to delete a maildir folder.
> 
> Dovecot versions 1.0.10, 1.0.13, 1.1.rc1, 1.1,rc3
> Error received:
> "dovecot: Mar 15 15:20:29 Error: IMAP(test at mydomain.com): 
> unlink_directory(/home/mail/mydomain.com/test/..DOVECOT-TRASHED) failed: 
> Permission denied"

Can you create new mailboxes? Can you delete that directory manually? As
it says, it can't do it because kernel gives "permission denied". It
could be that it contains a directory where the user doesn't have write
permissions.

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