On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 01:14, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 14.09.2004 schrieb Ow Mun Heng um 6:09: > > > > > 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 > > > It does not happen with the FC2 official package. Even putting dotlock > > into it, it's still OK. > > > > I guess this is a new _feature_ in the new release > > Yes, that is obvious. But that was not the point. So.. The point is that dovecot (official package from fedora) works out of the box stands true. > Though it will affect > future builds for Fedora Core, as the dovecot coder seems to have > changed something with locking which is not compatible with the way > Fedora and Redhat treats /var/mail/$user permissions. If it is under > each circumstance that easy to "fix" with the new configuration setting, > then it is no big problem. The dovecot maintainer will only have to be > aware of this implication :) I guess he is, that was why it was in it's FAQ/wiki > > > Ow Mun Heng > > Alexander -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 10:59:18 up 1:43, 8 users, load average: 1.02, 0.87, 0.66
