Yes Timo, the index files were in the wrong place. I have corrected
default_mail_env and all works fine now.

Thanks for your help,

James.

On 04/08/2006, at 7:08 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 00:33 +1000, James Brown wrote:

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For some reason i can't change the permissions on /var/spool/postfix/ dovecot.index.log from postfix to dovecot, or anything else.

I changed all the files in /var/spool/postfix to be owner postfix so that postfix wouldn't complain about insufficient priviledges.

I'm running MacOS X 10.4.7.

I can change it all I want, but the owner and group changes do not 'stick' - they simply stay at postfix.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Can I have the index and index.log files elsewhere?

The index files really shouldn't be there at all.

What have you set in default_mail_env? Or are you trying to read mails as postfix user or something?