[Dovecot] Permissions issue in OpenBSD

[J Moore]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:41:11AM +0200, the unit calling itself Michal Soltys 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?
> 
> 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.).

Hmmm - yeah... some Googling revealed a little change in the config file 
that solved the problem: 
from: 'mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl' 
to: 'mbox_write_locks = fcntl'

Gee... I wonder why the OpenBSD folks didn't take care of this?

Thnx,
Jay