I was hoping this would be the right place to look for some help, I cannot make public folders get the right permissions. I continually get the fchown error in logs, and have googled high an low to find multiple solutions that do not work for me.
I'm using maildir. I have sendmail with postfix distributing my mail. I created maildir's in each users personal directory. I then thought it would be neat to set up a public folder that people could dump spam and ham into, then have a cron script go through the directory and automatically sort it for bayes. However, when I put a file in the public folder, the permissions do not seem to work.
I've put a dovecot-shared file with root.mail permissions, 660, in just about every directory (all the public folder directories, and every personal user's control and index location), I've chmod'd to 777 each file and folder to test, etc, and no matter what, the dovecot.index.tmp in the user's index folder comes through with their permissions, and this error shows up.
Am I thinking this is something different then what it is or am I completely off base?
Thanks in advance, Bob
dovecot 1.0.13 (debian install)
# 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Mail/Inbox umask: 7 mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public:CONTROL=~/Mail/public/public:INDEX=~/Mail/public/index namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd