On 28.6.2012, at 2.34, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I am continuing to attempt to set up dovecot to keep its mail store in maildir form while receiving it from an mbox, but without success. Dovecot reports the error that it can't create the file ~/mail/.imap/INBOX (and also that it can't chown it to user mail, not surprising since it doesn't exist). This seems reasonable, since jonrysh (that is me) is not a member of the group mail. What should be done next? Should I join the group mail? It seems that this should not be necessary in general. The mail store is in ~/maildir, so what is the function of the mbox ~/mail?
Dovecot must be misconfigured, but it's not clear to a newbie like myself what's wrong. Any advice would be appreciated. I have attached an extract from maillog showing the errors (dovecot.log) dovecot reports (dovecot.log), and the output of dovecot -n (dovecot-n).
The log shows the URL for the explanation and the solution: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm