On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:54, Obantec Support wrote:

Hi

i tried

lock_method = fcntl

stopped and started dovecot , same error

You need to set the options for mbox locks. Check the dovecot-example.conf in your distribution for those parameters.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic Marks" dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk To: dovecot@dovecot.org Cc: "Obantec Support" support@obantec.net Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] file locks

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On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:29, Obantec Support wrote:

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Hi

I am trying to install 1.0 stable from source on a test server running 0.99 on FC3. i did basic ./configure etc and get this result

Jul 13 17:24:26 proteus4 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.proteus4.4485.e3eec7b26a559bac) failed: Permission denied Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/obantec: Permission denied Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: obantec [192.168.0.10]

when trying to access a test account.

permissions all look as per old 0.99 which did work.

Mark

Switch to using fcntl, unless you have a good reason not to.

Cheers,

Dominic Marks

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Hi Timo

adding mail_extra_groups = mail has let me get further.

i copied a user mbox across to the testbox and found i could not read the mail. looking at the mail it had a new line at the top and what look like message markers between emails. anyway dropping the first blank line i got the mails and the mbox has what looks like holding text to keep the mbox with some data.

<quote> >From MAILER_DAEMON Wed Jul 13 20:07:10 2005 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:07:10 +0100 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@proteus4> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-ID: <1121281630@proteus4> X-IMAP: 1121280534 0000000123 Status: RO

This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. <end quote>

I have seen this on old pop3 mbox files on RH6.2 server i had a while back.

i also had to add ssl_disable = yes to stop Cert warnings, which i did not do in 0.99

Mark

----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Sirainen" tss@iki.fi To: "Obantec Support" support@obantec.net Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] file locks