I've compiled the latest release candidate of dovecot and I am encountering a strange problem when mail is delivered. I have my installation configured to use Maildir. When messages arrive, they are placed in the correct user directory, but the ownership for individual messages is set to root and the group set to mail. This prevents these messages from being displayed in my client. The error message logged is as follows:

dovecot: Apr 08 13:11:08 Error: IMAP(mel): open(/home/mel/Maildir/cur/_d2F.eyKGGB.mjolnir:2,) failed: Permission denied

The file permissions for the message are as follows:

-rw------- 1 root mail 1805 2007-04-08 13:02 _AqG.VxTGGB.mjolnir:2,

I also noticed that the log file in the root Maildir also has the same ownership assigned (not the user's uid/gid).

Unless something has changed in dovecot.conf, this behavior is somewhat unexpected. I've included my config file in case there is something obvious that I am missing:

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot protocols = imaps

protocol imap { listen = imap.domain.com ssl_listen = 0.0.0.0:993 imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail }

disable_plaintext_auth = yes shutdown_clients = yes

log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log

ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imap.domain.com.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imap.domain.com.key

login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 8 login_max_processes_count = 32

verbose_ssl = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX:/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_save_crlf = no verbose_proctitle = yes max_mail_processes = 128 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mmap_disable = no lock_method = fcntl

umask = 0077

auth default { mechanisms = plain

passdb shadow {
    args = /etc/shadow
}

userdb passwd {
    args = /etc/passwd
}

}

If anyone could help clarify this behavior, it would be greatly appreciated.

Mel