[Dovecot] Occasional fchown errors?

Knute Johnson dovecot at knutejohnson.com
Thu Nov 11 07:07:35 EET 2010


On 11/10/2010 10:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:34 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Nov 10 08:32:59 rabbitbrush dovecot: IMAP(bob):
>> fchown(/home/bob/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail))
>> failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(bob), group based on
>> /var/mail/bob)
>
> chmod 0600 /var/mail/*
>
> Normal installations don't need them to be 0660.
>

Thanks, I'll try that.

knute...



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