On Monday 14 September 2009 09.36.45 Frank Bonnet wrote:

Hello

I occasionally get the following error in dovecot log I've replaced the username by xxxxxxx

/user is the user's home directories place, does this means it must be owned by the "mail" group ?

Sep 14 09:20:48 IMAP(xxxxxxx): Error: fchown(/user/xxxxxxx/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=3420(math), group based on /var/mail/xxxxxxx)

v1.2.0 2009-07-01 Timo Sirainen

* When creating files or directories to mailboxes, Dovecot now uses
  the mailbox directory's permissions and GID for them. Previous
  versions simply used 0600 mode always. For backwards compatibility
  dovecot-shared file's permissions still override these with Maildir.

	/ http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS-1.2 /

Also, searching for similar errors in the list archives yields very useful informations.

Daniel

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