-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, DCA wrote:
I am trying to set up dovecot to replace an older POP3 server in an existing set up. Currently the server uses sendmail to handle incoming mail. users are in /etc/mail and their incoming eMail lands in the /var/mail/username in /var/mail the username file is owned by username:mail I have dovecot configured to create the imap folders in /home/username/mail/ on existing accounts login attempts fail with errors such as: chown /home/username/mail/.imap/INBOX failed: Operation not permitted egid=500(username), group based on /var/mail/username mkdir /home/username/mail/imap/INBOX failed: Operation not permitted. Everything seems to work as expected but only if I add "username" into the "mail" group OR if I have all mailboxes chowned to username:username Is there any way to tell dovecot to ignore the group ownership of /var/mail/username and focus instead on using username:username for everything in /home/username ?
Post your doveconf -n and a sample of your account configuration: uid, gid, home.
- -- Steffen Kaiser
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