[Dovecot] utime : operation not permitted

Jim Horner jhorner at arinbe.com
Tue Jul 3 19:24:00 EEST 2007



With the upgrade to 1.0.1, I am seeing some errors/warnings

dovecot: IMAP(jhorner at arinbe.com): utime(/home/arinbe/Maildir/.info/tmp) 
failed: Operation not permitted: 1 Time(s)
dovecot: IMAP(jhorner at arinbe.com): 
utime(/home/arinbe/Maildir/.resumes.vabch/tmp) failed: Operation not 
permitted: 1 Time(s)

Different directories on different days. 
Different users on different days.
Always /tmp directory.
Always a /tmp of a shared namespace.

The /tmp directory in question is mode 770, with group users, just like the 
rest of the /arinbe/Maildir hierarchy.

As far as I can tell it doesn't affect anything on the client side.

dovecot -n

ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/arinbe/arinbe-godaddy.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/arinbe/arinbe.key
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!LOW:!SSLv2:+EXP:@STRENGTH
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: I am the IMAP Whisperer and I am ready.
mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir
umask: 7
mail_plugins: acl
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle
namespace:
  type: public
  separator: .
  prefix: COMPANY.
  location: 
maildir:/home/arinbe/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/shared-settings/company/control:INDEX=%h/shared-settings/company/index
namespace:
  type: public
  separator: .
  prefix: ROOTMAIL.
  location: 
maildir:/home/rootmail/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/shared-settings/rootmail/control:INDEX=%h/shared-settings/rootmail/index
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: .
  prefix: INBOX.
  inbox: yes
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login
  default_realm: arinbe.com
  user: nobody
  passdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-arinbe.conf
  passdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-domains.conf
  userdb:
    driver: prefetch
  userdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-arinbe.conf
  userdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-domains.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 438
      user: postfix
      group: postfix
    master:
      path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 432
      user: nobody
      group: mail
plugin:
  acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acls


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