[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 26 20:33:54 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:01 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
> > Or you could set mail_access_groups (or perhaps it's still
> > called mail_extra_groups in your version) to "mail",
> > assuming /var/spool/mail was owned by group mail and was
> > group-writable.
> 
> Setting mail_access_groups works, but the documentation says
> this is what the mail_privileged_group setting was for:

Oh, right, that's what I meant.

> Is it possible that dovecot internally forgets that creating
> the dotlock file is a "privileged operation"?

So you're saying that setting mail_privileged_group doesn't work?
Perhaps this setting is then buggy in Redhat's version?

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