[Dovecot] Trying to get Centos5 set up with dovecot

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, DCA wrote:

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> I am trying to set up dovecot to replace an older POP3 server in an existing set up.
> Currently the server uses sendmail to handle incoming mail. users are in /etc/mail and their incoming eMail lands in the /var/mail/username
> in /var/mail the username file is owned by username:mail
>
> I have dovecot configured to create the imap folders in /home/username/mail/
> on existing accounts login attempts fail with errors such as:
> chown /home/username/mail/.imap/INBOX failed: Operation not permitted egid=500(username), group based on /var/mail/username
> mkdir /home/username/mail/imap/INBOX failed: Operation not permitted.
>
> Everything seems to work as expected but only if I add "username" into the "mail" group OR if I have all mailboxes chowned to username:username
> Is there any way to tell dovecot to ignore the group ownership of /var/mail/username and focus instead on using username:username for everything in /home/username ?

Post your doveconf -n and a sample of your account configuration: uid, 
gid, home.

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Steffen Kaiser
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