Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

5 Aug 2009


      On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:31 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
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Aug  4 19:10:10 rezclick dovecot: IMAP(john):
fchown(/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) failed:
Operation not permitted (egid=509(johngrp), group based on
/var/spool/mail/john)
/var/spool/mail/john has a group of "mail", whereas the home directory has
their own "group". In 1.1.x we did not get these errors. Is this a fix in
1.2? I assume we have to make the group match from their home dir and
/var/spool/mail to get rid of the error? Any downside to allowing this
error to continue? Thanks.
What permissions does /var/spool/mail/john have? I guess mail group has
read permissions? Just removing that should fix the error.

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

Timo Sirainen

Aug 4 19:10:10 rezclick dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown(/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=509(johngrp), group based on /var/spool/mail/john)