This is Stricly FYI because I can't seem to get Dovecot running as a pop3 server for my box. #rpm -qa dovecot dovecot-0.99.10.9-2.1.fc2.dag What happens: $ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user user_dove +OK pass xxxx +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. Error Description: Error: open(/var/mail/user.lock) failed: Permission denied Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: Permission denied Solution: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VarMailDotLock Since v0.99.10.9 it's possible to fix this by adding to config file: mail_extra_groups = mail After I did that, pop3 works. So.. in effect, Dovecot doesn't work out-of-the-box as I've read. Anyway, this is FYI -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 11:25:56 up 16:05, 7 users, load average: 3.19, 2.57, 2.50
