[Dovecot] utime : operation not permitted

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 3 21:56:24 EEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:37 -0400, Jim Horner wrote:
> > This should fix it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/8f7e3311006f
> 
> before I try that I found
> 
> Jul  1 22:13:48 giganta dovecot: IMAP(hzzzzz at arinbe.com): 
> utime(/home/rootmail/Maildir/tmp) failed: Operation not permitted
> 
> hzzzzz does not have permission via dovecot-acl to see this directory (only me 
> and rootmail (which is a 'real-fake' user))... so my question is, why was 
> this operation tried in the first place?

You configured such namespace, and Dovecot always verifies that
namespace's INBOX exists and cleans up the tmp/ while at it. v1.1 won't
anymore do this unless namespace has inbox=yes (and there can be only
one such namespace).

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