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

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Thu May 4 00:59:35 EEST 2006


<quote who="Timo Sirainen">
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:49 +0100, Gavin Henry 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
>
> You've created dovecot-shared file with a group that the user doesn't
> have permission to use?
>
>

Yeah, it has a group permission for a managers group.

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