On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 08:47 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 with no problems. I was using Dovecot on FC2 also. > After I did the update last evening to 0.99.13-2.FC3 I noticed I can no longer > access my INBOX. My inbox is stored on /var/mail/. I noticed that the > /etc/dovecot.conf now has a date of last night. There was no reference during > the update of any config file updates which I've noticed in other package > updates (i.e. config now .rpmnew etc). Checking the log, I am now getting > ===> open(/var/mail/userid.lock) failed: Permission denied <==== messages. I > wanted to put this message out to warn others before accepting this update. > Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to fix this? > Here is a fix, http://wiki.dovecot.org/VarMailDotLock This seems to be a similar problem with FC2, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg08101.html This also seems to relate, , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113491
