On 1. Apr 2026, at 12.57, Stefan G. Weichinger via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
ls -l /home/vmail/xunil.at/logs@xunil.at/ total 944 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 622592 Apr 1 11:43 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 Jul 30 2021 dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 3304 Apr 1 11:35 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 202444 Apr 1 11:43 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 2908 Apr 1 11:43 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 32892 Apr 1 11:35 dovecot.index.log.2 -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 91 Feb 9 2024 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 root root 5744 Apr 1 10:30 dovecot.list.index -rw------- 1 root root 480 Apr 1 10:52 dovecot.list.index.log
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Why do these 2 files get owned by root now ... ?
That's very strange. It's not even supposed to be possible to configure Dovecot in a way that it writes to these files as root. If you look at your logs, can you see what process wrote these files at the time? imap, lmtp? Also what's your full doveconf -n output?