On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:17 +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote: > People, > > There is an imap client, which runs with user1 uid, but when its accessed to > watch a maildir, whose (and its contents) ownership is user1:user1, this > error > occurs: > > dovecot: IMAP(user1): fchown(/path/user1/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) > failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(user1), group based on /path/user1) > > dovecot.conf contains this line: mail_privileged_group = mail
This is needed only with mbox format. You should probably just comment it out. > authentication happens through passwd-file, where for user1 its uid and gid > are > specified as in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. > > So how should dovecot be told to use user1 group instead of mail group? (or > it > needs some other solution?) chgrp user1 /path/user1 or chmod 0700 /path/user1
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