[Dovecot] LDA with postfix lock problem

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Sep 24 14:53:34 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:21 +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: 
> open(/var/mail/.temp.zalm.8045.65c09c28953ea20c) failed: Permission denied
> Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file 
> /var/mail/rgevaert: Permission denied
..
> Giving o write access to the folder fixed it, but not in a way it has to 
> be :)
> 
> I already added
> mail_extra_groups = mail
> to dovecot.conf

Dovecot LDA doesn't read dovecot.conf at all.

Try what happens if you set restrict_setextragroups=mail in
dovecot-deliver.conf? I guess I should make mail_extra_groups work
directly in there (and later make LDA work directly with dovecot.conf..)

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