On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 23:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 16.01.2005 schrieb David Cary Hart um 15:57: > > > I awoke this morning to find that our server would not allow access to > > my mailbox. Coffee, Google and MUCH more coffee with an SSH chaser and I > > got it fixed by adding "mail_extra_groups = mail" to dovecot.conf. > > > > That said, what did this do, what did it fix and why did this > > (presumably) emerge with an update? > > Please see "2. dovecot.conf should default to fcntl locking" in > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-January/msg00582.html > > Something obviously went wrong with the dovecot update (unfortunately no > announce mail available for this package). > > "mail_extra_groups = mail" works because > > $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/ /var/spool/mail/adalloz > drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 16. Jan 14:55 /var/spool/mail/ > -rw-rw---- 1 adalloz mail 11036600 16. Jan 13:18 > /var/spool/mail/adalloz > > system account mail group owns the mail spool and the users' mbox files. Hmm... I posted about this little "iNFO" ages ago. <----SNIP fro Old List Mail---> On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:32, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > 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 <--- END SNIP ----> -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:38:56 up 41 min, 4 users, load average: 0.54, 0.79,
