[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0rc30 message ownership set as root mail

Mel Llaguno mel at aclaro.com
Tue Apr 10 19:32:47 EEST 2007


Thanks for your help. I suspected as much. I use procmail as the LDA.

Mel

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:18 -0600, Mel Llaguno wrote:
>
>   
>> I've compiled the latest release candidate of dovecot and I am 
>> encountering a strange problem when mail is delivered. I have my 
>> installation configured to use Maildir. When messages arrive, they
>> are 
>> placed in the correct user directory, but the ownership for
>> individual 
>> messages is set to root and the group set to mail.
>>     
> ..
>   
>> -rw-------  1 root mail 1805 2007-04-08 13:02 _AqG.VxTGGB.mjolnir:2,
>>     
>
> What delivers the mails to maildir? You're not using Dovecot LDA because
> Dovecot doesn't create filenames like this. So your problem really has
> nothing to do with Dovecot, but rather the configuration of your MTA or
> mail delivery agent.
>
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