[Dovecot] BOGUS files

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Sun Jul 3 12:29:07 EEST 2005


Sorry Saurabh i forgot to change reply address to the list so you will get
this and list copy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saurabh Barve" <sa at atmos.colostate.edu>
To: "Mailing List Dovecot" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] BOGUS files


> Something is going on with your user permissions. Are you
> adding/deleting/modifying users [probably while they are logged in]?
> The system is not able to figure out the user permissions for the mail
> file, so it is creating those BOGUS files.
>
> What are the permissions on the BOGUS and the user mail files? Are they
> "username:mail" or something different?
>
> Saurabh
>
<snip>

Nope only the user accesses via pop3, he does not even use webmail.

BOGUS is username:mail chmod 600 as is the username file in /var/spool/mail
which has a link /var/mail to /var/spool/mail

Mark



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