On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:59 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
<quote who="Timo Sirainen"> > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:49 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed: >> >> dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file >> /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not >> permitted > > You've created dovecot-shared file with a group that the user doesn't > have permission to use? >
Yeah, it has a group permission for a managers group.
I think the problem is that Dovecot in general doesn't preserve the groups for mail processes, unless you make userdb return "system_user=username". If you're using passwd as passdb it should have been done automatically, but not for other userdbs.