[Dovecot] Permissions issue in OpenBSD

Michal Soltys nozo at ziu.info
Mon Jul 24 07:41:11 EEST 2006


J Moore wrote:
> Jul 23 22:40:29 kingcull dovecot: pop3(jm): 
> open(/var/mail/.temp.myserver.mymail.com.19038.10090e2f3cc51a4b) failed: 
> Permission denied
> 
> Could someone offer a clue as to what is needed to fix this?
> 
> Thanx,
> Jay
> 

That's due to locking. Permissions on OpenBSD for /var/mail are a bit 
different. So - try different mechanism for at least mbox locking (fcntl or 
flock, etc.).


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