[Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot
Hello! I'm trying the Dovecot as IMAP server, so I have one problem: I can log in to server, but nothing appears in mailclient and following message appears in log: imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges dovecot: Feb 08 20:36:34 Error: child 21356 (imap) returned error 89
What could be wrong? Thanks for your answer.
WBR, Paul.
Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
Hello! I'm trying the Dovecot as IMAP server, so I have one problem: I can log in to server, but nothing appears in mailclient and following message appears in log: imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges dovecot: Feb 08 20:36:34 Error: child 21356 (imap) returned error 89
What could be wrong? Thanks for your answer.
Which version of Dovecot are you running? And on which OS? I had the same error when trying to do so with versions after about 1.0test51 on my Solaris 9 server at home.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
OS FreeBSD 4.4, Dovecot 0.99.13
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Curtis Maloney Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:06 AM To: Paul A. Novojeeloff Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot
Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
Hello! I'm trying the Dovecot as IMAP server, so I have one problem: I can log in to server, but nothing appears in mailclient and following message appears in log: imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges dovecot: Feb 08 20:36:34 Error: child 21356 (imap) returned error 89
What could be wrong? Thanks for your answer.
Which version of Dovecot are you running? And on which OS? I had the same error when trying to do so with versions after about 1.0test51 on my Solaris 9 server at home.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
What version are you running?
I had a similar problem on Solaris but it was fixed around test52. If your root user is set up a bit differently, or your dovecot user is in the wrong group, can cause this too.
Greg.
What do you mean "differently" about my root? Dovecot is in group called "mail" like sendmail etc. This group has full permissions to mail directory.
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Bond Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:17 AM To: Paul A. Novojeeloff Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot
Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
What version are you running?
I had a similar problem on Solaris but it was fixed around test52. If your root user is set up a bit differently, or your dovecot user is in the wrong group, can cause this too.
Greg.
Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
What do you mean "differently" about my root?
I've no idea about 0.99, but in the earlier 1.0tests Dovecot assumed certaint things about root's group membership (i.e. root's primary group was gid 0) and Solaris (which had gid=1 for root) elicited this error message. Perhaps your system has something similar.... or try the later 0.99 as Timo suggested.
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:11 +0300, Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
Please try 0.99.14-rc2 from http://dovecot.org/rc/ - might fix it but at least it gives a better error message if nothing else.
Hi Timo! As you adviced, I tried 14-rc2, it says that something wrong in makefile. But rc3 works correctly, no problems detected yet. Thanks for your help.
And I have another question: when user (OutlookXP) deletes a message in INBOX, it looks striked out, but still appears. What should I do to make deleted messages deleted completely? I use mbox on my server. I guess that migration to maildir will fix this problem, but I'm not ready to make this migration yet, simply I don't know how to do it. So could you tell me what should I do with mbox?
Thanks again, Paul.
----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:58 PM To: Paul A. Novojeeloff Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:11 +0300, Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
Please try 0.99.14-rc2 from http://dovecot.org/rc/ - might fix it but at least it gives a better error message if nothing else.
Sorry my stupid question in previous message, I've just found where is "expunge" in russian MSOutlookXP. Thanks to all for patience ;-))
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:58 PM To: Paul A. Novojeeloff Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Trouble with Dovecot
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:11 +0300, Paul A. Novojeeloff wrote:
imap(user): Feb 08 20:36:34 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges
Please try 0.99.14-rc2 from http://dovecot.org/rc/ - might fix it but at least it gives a better error message if nothing else.
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Curtis Maloney
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Gregory Bond
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Paul A. Novojeeloff
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Timo Sirainen