[Dovecot] Inbox weirdness

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> 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 ?

Ah, yes, it's there.

ls -l /var/mail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 Jun 23 08:11 /var/mail -> spool/mail

> Did you forgot to adjust default_mail_env = ?

I didn't have a value in there before, but setting it to 
"mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u" allowed it to show the inbox, so 
obviously dovecot's detection broke somehow.

> Is dovecot running with group mail?

No, it's running as root.

I think I can take it from here, but if anyone has any ideas as to how to 
fix the detection I'm willing to listen.

-- 
Thanks,
   Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams