[Dovecot] fchown failed

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 14 17:36:34 EEST 2009


On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> Sep 14 09:20:48 IMAP(xxxxxxx): Error:
> fchown(/user/xxxxxxx/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail))  
> failed:
> Operation not permitted (egid=3420(math), group based on /var/mail/ 
> xxxxxxx)

chmod 0600 /var/mail/*

should help. I'm trying to get distros and upstream to do that by  
default..



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