Re: Permissions problem with mdbox maildir

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de writes:

Could you try what happens, if you create the hardlink manually as the vmail user _two_ times, if the first link() succeeds. Maybe:

1. hard links won't work on your encfs,
2. link() fails with "Operation not permitted" instead of "File exists" in your case, if the target file already exists.

Something like: sudo -u vmail ln
/var/decrypted/vmail/aleme.nu/root/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index
/var/decrypted/vmail/aleme.nu/root/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.backup.tmp

It turns out (1) was the problem—encfs doesn't allow hard links in my configuration. I've set maildir_copy_with_hardlinks to no; hopefully that will resolve the issue. Thanks so much for your help!