[Dovecot] dovecot-acl-list not honouring owner / permissions that are set on dovecot-shared

Stuart Rowan strr-debian at decisionsoft.co.uk
Thu Jun 25 23:32:15 EEST 2009


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 19:01 +0100, Stuart Rowan wrote:
>> dovecot: 2009-06-25 18:50:15 Error: IMAP(strr): fchown() failed with 
>> file /home/local/strr/Maildir/index/Archive/.junk/dovecot.index.log: 
>> Operation not permitted
> 
> Do you have .junk/dovecot-shared file? It tries to preserve its group in
> all created files. Setting g+s to it makes it not to preserve the group.
> 
It had a group of root instead of the correct group (stupid me for not 
spotting this all day) ... having just done chgrp all is well.

Timo, thank you -- that's what I call support :-)

Cheers,
Stu.


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