[Dovecot] Permission denied

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 9 13:40:45 EEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 11:08, Frédéric Sapin wrote:
> I'm a new user of dovecot and I've got a permission denied problem.
> I've read the VarMailDotLock wiki paper but there is still a security problem.
> If I enter :
> chmod a+rwxt /var/spool/mail it works but I think it's very dangerous to have 
> thaht rights.
> So I've tried to edit the dovecot.conf file and to change the 
> mail_extra_groups = mail and to change the rights : chmod +t /var/spool/mail 
> but it doesn't work !

It should then have permissions:

drwxrwxr-t    2 root     mail           32 2004-06-16 04:45 /var/mail/

Do you have those? If yes, what operating system are you using?

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