On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 08:06 +0200, Henrik Larsson wrote:
I recently upgraded from 2.1.16 to 2.2.2 and started to receive the following errors: imap(henrik@example.com): Error: stat(/var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16128.3209d13f842955c2) failed: Permission denied imap(henrik@example.com): Error: Temp file creation to /var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16128. failed: Permission denied imap(henrik@example.com): Error: stat(/var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16501.0ddff1dc93cdbe6a) failed: Permission denied imap(henrik@example.com): Error: Temp file creation to /var/db/dovecot/dovecot.imap.mail.example.com.16501. failed: Permission denied
I didn't have these before the upgrade. The current permissions for the /var/db/dovecot directory is root:wheel 755.
What would be the correct permissions for the mail_temp_dir directory?
Mail processes (imap, pop3, lda, etc.) need to be able to write to mail_temp_dir.
first_valid_uid = 125 .. userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql }
If all of your mail users use UID 125, then 125 can own the directory. If you use multiple UIDs, it needs to have the same permissions are your /tmp.