[Dovecot] Inbox weirdness

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> I recently had a system crash and my inbox became inaccessible via IMAP.
>
> ls -ld /var/spool/mail
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root mail 4096 Sep  1 07:54 /var/spool/mail
>
> ls -l /var/spool/mail/ignacio
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> -rw-rw----  1 ignacio mail 7222021 Sep  1 07:54 /var/spool/mail/ignacio

> imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission denied
                              ^^^^^^^^^ 
Do you have a symlink /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail ?
Did you forgot to adjust default_mail_env = ?
Is dovecot running with group mail?

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser