[Dovecot] deliver stopped working

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Oct 5 16:03:31 EEST 2009


On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:58 AM, vwc72283 at voicenet.com wrote:

>
> Its the O_EXCL in the open call! How can I make it not use O_EXCL?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ted-
>
> strace.out.6700:open("/home/vmail/mydomain.net/myaccount/tmp/ 
> 1254635441.M259070P6700.myserver.mydomain.net",
> O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0777) = -1 EACCES  
> (Permission denied)

I'd instead suggest changing SELinux policy to allow O_EXCL. Anyway,  
there is a setting for that (for now):

dotlock_use_excl = no



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