[Dovecot] upgrade from version 1.0.3 to version 1.0.7

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Nov 26 16:36:05 EET 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:32 -0500, dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us
wrote:
> Nov 26 09:28:10 mail dovecot: IMAP(someuser):  
> open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.harrisonburg.k12.va.us.23157.22aab3df3f835fed)  
> failed: Permission denied
> Nov 26 09:28:10 mail dovecot: IMAP(someuser): file_lock_dotlock()  
> failed with mbox file /var/mail/someuser: Permission denied.

Typical workaround to this is to set mail_extra_groups = mail.
Alternative is to change /var/mail directory to be world writable (and
with sticky bit).

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