[Dovecot] 1.1.alpha2 error in logs

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 9 19:04:02 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 09:44 -0600, Mike Cisar wrote:
> Did a quick-n-dirty install of 1.1.alpha2 on a Fedora Core 6 server... am
> getting the following message in the maillog, though there seems to be no
> problem accessing mail.  Error seems to be consistent for all users.
> Running 1.0.3 on the system previously.
> 
> Aug  8 22:49:26 stage2 dovecot: IMAP(testuser):
> mkdir(/var/spool/vmail/192.168.0.199/.imap/testuser) failed: Permission
> denied
> 
> This is what I'm using for my env in dovecot.conf...
> default_mail_env = mbox:/vhome/%l/home/%n/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%l/%n

This reminds me that I'll remove default_mail_env from v1.1. It was
renamed to mail_location long time ago.

> Thoughts, comments, something I need to modify in my config?

Looks like this was a bug. Thanks, fixed:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/c6b1d8515354

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