[Dovecot] Expunge working on folders, but not main mailbox

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 5 14:05:57 EEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:28 -0400, Xev Gittler wrote:
> I've recently installed dovecot, and while the behavior on folders is 
> correct, the inbox cannot be expunged.
..
> mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

It probably doesn't have permissions to create dotlock
to /var/spool/mail/. But it should have complained about this in the
logs. Setting mail_privileged_group=mail will probably help.

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