[Dovecot] indexes permissions problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 00:30 -0800, Mark Hanford wrote:

> I've got a centos 6 server running Dovecot 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef).  
> For legacy reasons (I'm moving mail from a Dovecot 1.1.1 and FreeBSD box 
> with user home directories NFS mounted), my index files are setup to be 
> in /u/indexes/
> 
> On the Dovecot 1.1.1 installation, the perms on the indexes directory is 
> 777 with root:mail ownership.
> 
> The same thing on the Dovecot 2 / Centos server results in a 'permission 
> denied' error when Dovecot tries to create files.

What exactly is the error message? Copy&paste it entirely.

> So, I guess my main question is, what perms and ownership should 
> /u/indexes be set to?  I've tried several different things before this 
> cry for help...

Those permissions look ok to me. It's possible that this was a bug in
2.0.beta6 and upgrading might help (but might not).