Re: [Dovecot] Help needed: Index filesystem permissions problem after switch to V1.2 and back to V1.1

Steffan's answer was good. Also:

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:24 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:

2726 root@mercury:/var/dcindx ## ls -ald
drwx--S--- 3946 dovecot system 192512 Nov 05 08:59 ./

Don't use "dovecot" user for ANYTHING. It's used internally by login processes. There should be no files in filesystem owned by dovecot user.