[Dovecot] Intermittent "cannot update mailbox" problems w/ postfix & dovecot

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Dec 22 23:12:57 UTC 2006


On 8.12.2006, at 23.30, John Reddy wrote:

> Dec  7 09:42:05 solaris-host local[18332]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> D35C3445C: to=<bubba at solaris-host.sample.com>, relay=local,
> delay=0.17, delays=0.09/0/0/0.08, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (cannot
> update mailbox /var/mail/bubba for user bubba. cannot open file:
> Permission denied)

I'd guess you're solved this already somehow, but to me it looks like  
a Postfix configuration problem. Maybe you've configured Postfix to  
use different UID for a user than for Dovecot.


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