On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Janusz Batko wrote:
Nov 1 12:31:24 sneogg dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<test2>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Nov 1 12:31:24 sneogg dovecot: pop3(test2): open(/var/mail/.temp.sneogg.araneo.pl.15235.cf176acb943a102d) failed: Permission denied Nov 1 12:31:24 sneogg dovecot: pop3(test2): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/test2: Permission denied Nov 1 12:31:24 sneogg dovecot: pop3(test2): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0
If your incoming mail directory is not /var/mail, you need to tell dovecot where it is. (see mailenv)
That's a permissions problem with /var/mail. If you want to use "dot locking", which is necessary if you have more than one way of accessing the incoming mail, such as using a different pop and imap daemon, some people reading the mail locally, or sharing the mail via NFS or SAMBA, then you need to:
The standard (and less than wonderful) way is to make /var/mail world writeable as in:
ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4096 Nov 1 14:14 /var/spool/mail
This makes the incoming mail directory owned by root, with a group of mail and world writeable. Note that this does not let individual people read others mail, but on a system used by many people it's dangerous.
It would be better to make the directory owned by root, with a group mail and permissions set to 0775. This allows anyone in group mail to write to it, without allowing a general user to do so.
Make sure that your mail delivery program will allow you to do this, some will not and require the incoming mail directory to be world writeable.
Then make sure that you have the options set in your dovecot.conf file:
mail_extra_groups = mail
lock_method = dotlock
mbox_read_locks = dotlock
mbox_write_locks = dotlock
(other locking methods may be better, it depends upon what else
access your mail directory)Geoff.
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