[Dovecot] wrong permission

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jul 31 13:55:56 EEST 2008


On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Cor Bosman wrote:

>>> So this was created after we started using 1.1.1. Yesterday I only
>>> found
>>> 5 after a week of operation. So I realize this can be very hard to
>>> find
>>> as we have millions and millions of folders. In theory it could even
>>> be an NFS server bug, although we havent seen this in the mailspool
>>> directories.
>>
>> Do you see any errors related to this in log files? Do you see
>> maildirfolder file inside that directory? If it really is created
>> without +x, then Dovecot should fail the maildirfolder file creation
>> and log it.
>
> Yes, I do see errors, thats how I find them. Permission denied errors.

But what about the maildirfolder file? Does it exist? If not, do you  
see an error in logs:

open(.../maildirfolder, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied

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