On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 17:01 +0200, Egbert wrote: > The renaming of the maildir fails, wrong user. I can fiddle this out. > Perhaps the /var/mail tree should be owned by user dovecot. No. It's never dovecot user. It's the mail user uid, as returned by your userdb. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds