[Dovecot] cannot delete emails in inbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:33 AM, JANE CUA wrote:

> I am working on upgrading our current squirrelmail and replace uw- 
> imap with dovecot.  I have what looks like a successful  
> installation.  My current setup is:
> Centos 5.2
> sendmail 8.13.8
> dovecot 1.1.17 (imap)
> squirrelmail 1.4.17
>
> I can send and receive email fine.  However when I try to delete an  
> email in my Inbox, it doesn't get deleted.  It only sends a copy to  
> the Trash folder.  But the email is still in the Inbox.  I can purge  
> and delete the contents in my Trash and Sent folder, no problem.  I  
> am not sure if this is a Squirrelmail issue or a Dovecot issue.   
> Please advice.  Thank you -- Jane

Is this with mbox? Have you looked at the logs if there are error  
mesages (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging)? Sounds like INBOX is read- 
only because it can't create a dotlock file to /var/mail. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox