[Dovecot] public folders fchown error

[junk at mc1.mccarthy.ac]

Here are some examples... from what I can tell in google, dovecot is
failing trying to change these files to the mail group dovecot is running
under?  I've manually changed everything under these folders to be 777, as
well as root.mail permissions, they just change back to being owned by the
user, and then dovecot can't change them to mail... at least I think
that's what's happening.

dovecot: IMAP(admin):
fchown(/home/admin/Mail/public/public/.SpamReport/dovecot-uidlist) failed:
Operation not permitted
dovecot: IMAP(bob):
fchown(/home/bob/Mail/public/public/.SpamReport/dovecot-uidlist) failed:
Operation not permitted
dovecot: IMAP(bob): fchown() failed with file
/home/bob/Mail/public/index/.SpamReport/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not
permitted
dovecot: IMAP(mike): fchown() failed with file
/home/mike/Mail/public/index/.Contacts/dovecot.index.log: Operation not
permitted


> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 20:47 -0600, junk at mc1.mccarthy.ac wrote:
>> I was hoping this would be the right place to look for some help, I
>> cannot
>> make public folders get the right permissions.  I continually get the
>> fchown error in logs, and have googled high an low to find multiple
>> solutions that do not work for me.
>
> What exactly is the fchown error message?
>
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