[Dovecot] 1.2.alpha1: file_dotlock_open() failed with subscription file

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:54 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:48:01 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 11:13 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > > Sep 10 01:28:38 seymour dovecot: IMAP(steffen,192.168.28.31): fchown(/home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions.lock) failed: Operation not permitted
> > 
> > This'll improve the error message:
> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/c22b7db8c173
> > 
> > > File permissions are:
> > > 
> > > -rw------- 1 steffen elsner 124 Aug 22 12:51 /home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions
> > 
> > What about /home/Mail/steffen directory's? It's probably trying to
> > preserve its group. If so, either change the group or chmod g+s it or
> > give mail process permission for that group.
> 
> # ls -dal /home/Mail/steffen
> drwxr-x--- 19 steffen mail 4096 Sep 10 22:12 /home/Mail/steffen/

Does it need to have mail group? I'd say chgrp it to elsner.

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