[Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

[Rob Mangiafico]

Hello,

I installed 1.2.3 and we are seeing a few messages in the log files such 
as:
---
Aug  4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file 
/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted
Aug  4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file 
/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted
---

dovecot -n:
# 1.2.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.20.1 i686 CentOS release 4.7 (Final)
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/gd_intermediate_bundle.crt
ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/xyz.com.cert
ssl_key_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/xyz.com.key
ssl_cipher_list: HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3:!ADH:!LOW
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_max_userip_connections(default): 25
mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 25
mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mail_full_filesystem_access: yes
mmap_disable: yes
fsync_disable: yes
mbox_read_locks: fcntl flock
mbox_write_locks: fcntl flock
mbox_very_dirty_syncs: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_process_size: 512
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
lda:
   postmaster_address: postmaster at example.com
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   username_format: %Lu
   verbose: yes
   passdb:
     driver: shadow
   userdb:
     driver: passwd
---

Permissions look fine in the home directory john, including all 
sub-directories. Thanks for letting me know of anything to check/change.

Rob