[Dovecot] utime : operation not permitted

[Jim Horner]

> Permission problems I suppose.. You could try this yourself too:

yeah, permissions was the first thing I checked.

drwxrwx---  2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 18:03 cur
-rwxr-xr-x  1 arinbe users   96 2007-06-28 22:43 dovecot-acl
-rw-r-----  1 arinbe users    0 2006-10-28 16:42 dovecot-shared
-rw-r-----  1 arinbe users  547 2006-10-28 16:42 dovecot-uidlist
drwxrwx---  2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 16:42 Maildir
-rw-r-----  1 arinbe users    0 2006-10-28 16:42 maildirfolder
drwxrwx---  2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 16:42 new
drwxrwx---  2 arinbe users 4096 2006-10-28 16:42 tmp

I guess that 'Maildir" and 'maildirfolder' are leftover from Courier... 
probably should clean those out.

> After this open the mailbox. You'll probably see the error.

> Have you mounted the filesystem with noatime? This utime() should be
> done only with noatime mounts.

/dev/sda9       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2

and unless I'm reading 'man mount' incorrectly:

defaults
Use  default  options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.

I think this is a stock install. I usually don't muck around in fstab.

> touch -a -d '10 hours ago' tmp

I tried that on this directory which happened earlier today
Jul  3 12:14:24 giganta dovecot: IMAP(jhorner at arinbe.com): 
utime(/home/arinbe/Maildir/.contracts/tmp) failed: Operation not permitted

and nothing appeared in the mail.err log... it is so arbitrary... or I'm too 
stupid to see the connection.

Thanks,

Jim