Package: dovecot-common Version: 1.0.rc15-2etch4 Severity: important
I began receiving the following log messages for numerous users after upgrading to the most recent stable version of dovecot and changing the configuration files to use mail_priviliged_group instead of mail_extra_groups. Mar 18 20:31:13 porter dovecot: POP3(logang): open(/var/mail/logang, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied Mar 18 20:51:46 porter dovecot: IMAP(logang): open(/var/mail/logang, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied The errors seem to correspond to connections by a mail client, however they do not occur for every connection and I get this error for some users much more than others. The permissions I have set for the /var/mail directory and inbox files are: drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2008-03-19 11:11 /var/mail -rw-r----- 1 logang mail 39860176 2008-03-18 22:31 /var/mail/logang Also, note that these files are stored on an NFS mount and fcntl locking with lockd is used. I briefly tried dotlock, but still got the error messages. If I add the mail group to the mail_access_groups the problem appears to go away. (I'm aware that due to the security concerns this is not an acceptable permanent fix.) Besides these errors, email clients still work fine, and I have not received any complaints from users regarding any unusual behaviour with their mail. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers deltatee APT policy: (500, 'deltatee'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1deltatee Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA) Versions of packages dovecot-common depends on: ii add 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 common error description library ii lib 1.4.4-7etch4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii lib 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries ii lib 5.0.32-7etch5 mysql database client library ii lib 0.79-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii lib 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii lib 8.1.11-0etch1 PostgreSQL C client library ii lib 3.3.8-1.1 SQLite 3 shared library ii lib 0.9.8c-4etch1 SSL shared libraries ii ope 0.9.8c-4etch1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a ii zli 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime dovecot-common recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
