[Dovecot] "fchown() failed with file" and Operation not permitted with indexes

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Luis Atala">
> finally the server is running :)
>

<snip>

Thanks for this ;-)

>
> On 5/3/06, Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretecsystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed:
>>
>> dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file
>> /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not
>> permitted
>>
>> For .log and .cache as well.
>>
>> We have:
>>
>> location =
>> maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index
>>
>> I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw:
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>> fchown() failed for (line 42)
>>
>> to change the owner first, so don't know why we are getting this error?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gavin.
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Gavin Henry.
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