Hi folks,

 I'm trying to migrate an old uw-imap server to dovecot,

and running into puzzling (to me) permission problems. I've configured mail_location as follows:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

and each user's mail directory has permissions like this:

drwx------ 2 uid gid 4096 Jul 5 09:26 /home/uid/mail

But when I try to check a user's mail using an imap client, I see the following error:

Jul 5 09:59:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): mkdir_parents(/home/uid/mail/.imap/ INBOX) failed: Permission denied

 If I open up the permissions so anyone can write, I find

that the .imap directory is successfully created, and owned by "uid". Is dovecot initially creating the directory with some other ownership, and then changing the ownership to "uid"?

 I can get around this problem by setting INDEX in 

mail_location, and pointing it to a directory with more open permissions, but then I run into the next problem:

Jul 5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied

In this case, the permissions are set as follows:

-rw------- 1 bkw1a mail 1267 Jul 5 08:47 /var/spool/mail/uid

How should the permissions be set on the spool files?

                                       Thanks in advance,
                                       Bryan

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