[Dovecot] mbox INBOX out of sync (?)

[Timo Sirainen]

A guess: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox -> /var/mail/ dotlocks

On 17.1.2013, at 8.30, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado <tbarreno at yahoo.es> wrote:

> 
> Hello again,
> 
> Permissions seems to be ok; all mboxes has 660 with group 'mail'.
> 
> ---
> -rw-rw---- 1 tbarreno mail  1337814 ene 17 06:10 tbarreno
> ---
> 
> However, the dovecot service was changed last October in Debian distro:
> 
> ---
>  * Dovecot uses two system users for internal purposes now by
>    default: "dovenull" and "dovecot". "dovenull" user is used by
>    completely untrustworthy processes, while "dovecot" user is used
>    for slightly more trusted processes.
> ---
> 
> The "dovecot" user isn't included in the 'mail' group; I've tryed but it doesn't work.
> 
> I'll take a look at the Postfix configuration just to see if it's locking the files.
> 
> Many thanks again.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Tinguaro Barreno
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 20:38 +0100, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I've running a Dovecot's installation for several years without problems but since last system upgrade (Dec 26) I'm facing a kind of sync issue with the /var/mail/ inbox files.
>>> 
>>> We have got mobile and desktops IMAP clients (mostly Mozilla Thunderbird). The problem is that /var/mail/ files (mbox) aren't updated: we can delete mail from clients but they persist in de /var/mail, so the same user can see the mail again from other IMAP client.
>>> 
>>> Logs seems to be correct.
>> 
>> Sounds like Dovecot thinks the INBOX is read-only. What are the
>> filesystem permissions in the files?
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
> <tbarreno at alameda.homeip.net>
>