[Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

[Rob Mangiafico]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:46 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
>> 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
>
> This patch should give you a bit better error message that would explain
> the reason: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/8ea90a23ed74

Thanks. We've applied the patch and will email back if it continues to 
happen or we have any questions.

Rob