[Dovecot] Convert plugin

Egbert egbert at vandenbussche.nl
Fri Jul 30 22:27:44 EEST 2010


Op 30-7-2010 17:32, Timo Sirainen schreef:
> 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
>
>
There seems to be a problem then. The UID of vmail is 5000 for all 
users. The rename failed when the whole /var/mail tree was owned by 
vmail. The rename is quite essentiial to prevent re-converting the mbox 
again and again...

Egbert Jan


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