On 2023-05-26 22:59, lie...@bfh.ch wrote:
May 26 21:57:06 imap(mutt)<16><Rkpg0Z/8pLfAqDAB>: Error: Mailbox
Public/archive: open() failed with mbox: Read-only file system.
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
mail_uid=1000
mail_gid=1000
namespace {
type = public
prefix = Public/
location = mbox:/var/mail/:INDEX=/var/indexes/public
subscriptions = no
}
Might be worth also setting the location of control files:
location =
mbox:/var/mail/:INDEX=/var/indexes/public:CONTROL=/var/control/%u
Where /var/control is writable by uid 1000.
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/mbox/
Has this to say about mbox control files:
"Under mbox format, Dovecot maintains the subscribed mailboxes list in a
file .subscriptions which by default is stored in the mail location
root.
So in the example configuration this would be at ~/mail/.subscriptions.
If you want to put this somewhere else, you can change the directory in
which
the .subscriptions file is kept by using the CONTROL parameter."
Also this:
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/mbox
Describes various file locking requirements for mbox format.
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/mbox/mboxlocking
Seems dovecot is going to check if it can create a .lock file (or
otherwise
lock the file using flock())
A couple of workarounds are described there.
As the docs note, mbox isn't a great format to do this with.
You might also like to investigate Dovecot access lists to make 'read
only'
folders etc:
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/acl
Rob
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