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

Xev Gittler xgittler at schore.org
Sun Oct 5 14:14:00 EEST 2008


Thanks - someone else recommended that and it worked.
X


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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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