[Dovecot] id/permissions question

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:17 +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> People,
> 
> There is an imap client, which runs with user1 uid, but when its accessed to 
> watch a maildir, whose (and its contents) ownership is user1:user1, this error 
> occurs:
> 
> dovecot: IMAP(user1): fchown(/path/user1/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) 
> failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(user1), group based on /path/user1)
> 
> dovecot.conf contains this line: mail_privileged_group = mail

This is needed only with mbox format. You should probably just comment
it out.

> authentication happens through passwd-file, where for user1 its uid and gid are 
> specified as in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> 
> So how should dovecot be told to use user1 group instead of mail group? (or it 
> needs some other solution?)

chgrp user1 /path/user1

or

chmod 0700 /path/user1

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