On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:31:41PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> Chris --
>
> ...and then Chris Green said...
> % On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:19:44PM +0200, clemensF wrote:
> % >
> % > if you enjoy the neccessary priviledges on the place hosting your
> % >
> % Well I should do, the IMAP server is running as a user process, all
> % the files are in my user area and all the files are owned and
> % writeable by me.
>
> Please forgive me for stating the obvious, but is the imapd running in
> the user space actually running with your UID, and doess it expect to
> be in the user space (or at least be happy) and not try to do some fancy
> change-euid for file manipulation?
>
Everything else IMAP'ish works, I can create new folders, save mail to
folders, etc. It's only delete that fails. I would have thought that
creating folders and deleting folders uses basically the same
permissions.
It may be some quirk of Courier IMAP but I'm not quite sure how to
diagnose it at the moment.
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