Re: [Dovecot] Expunge working on folders, but not main mailbox

[Xev Gittler]

Thanks - someone else recommended that and it worked.
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Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:28 -0400, Xev Gittler wrote:

I've recently installed dovecot, and while the behavior on folders is correct, the inbox cannot be expunged.

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mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

It probably doesn't have permissions to create dotlock
to /var/spool/mail/. But it should have complained about this in the
logs. Setting mail_privileged_group=mail will probably help.