[Dovecot] utime : operation not permitted

Jim Horner jhorner at arinbe.com
Wed Jul 4 01:47:41 EEST 2007


On Tuesday 03 July 2007 14:56:24 you wrote:
> 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).

Thanks. I know namespaces have been bothersome or at least that is what I 
think I hear when I read your emails in the list. I've been trying to keep up 
with all the changes.

I've applied the patch. I will report back. It happens pretty infrequently... 
so it could be a while.

Thanks,

Jim



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