----- Forwarded Message ----- From: chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> To: Edwin Humphries <edwinh@earthcaretech.com.au> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox

We have made a copy of our mail server and we sometimes rsync files between the original server and the copy so that when we need to do maintenance work we unplug the production server and put the copy server in lieu. We later found out that rsync needs to be run with the --no-numeric-ids argument to keep owners and groups intact, otherwise you end up with weired owners and groups.

Yassine.

From: Edwin Humphries <edwinh@earthcaretech.com.au> To: chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 5:23 AM Subject: Re: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox

Chaouche

Duh! I reproduced the issue, then found the log file (mail.log, in my case) and found that that user wasn't in the mail group (which is itself a puzzle, because it used to be, but not sure I'm going to spend much time investigating why); added the user to the mail group, restarted dovecot, and hey presto, everything works.

Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051

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How about some /var/log/dovecot.log lines ? ----- Original Message ----- From: Edwin Humphries <edwinh@earthcaretech.com.au> To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 1:22 AM Subject: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox Hi, I'm running Dovecot and Thunderbird, with 2 separate accounts (business and personal). One operates fine, but the other one won't allow me to write replies to the Inbox (so that I can track current threads), and if I move emails to another folder, it copies them instead. New emails do appear in the Inbox. I've checked the permissions on the two Inboxes, and they are the same (except for the owner name). I've tried compacting the problem Inbox, but that hasn't changed things. Edwin