Quoting Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Nov 26 09:28:10 mail dovecot: IMAP(someuser):
open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.harrisonburg.k12.va.us.23157.22aab3df3f835fed)
failed: Permission denied
Nov 26 09:28:10 mail dovecot: IMAP(someuser): file_lock_dotlock()
failed with mbox file /var/mail/someuser: Permission denied.

Typical workaround to this is to set mail_extra_groups = mail.
Alternative is to change /var/mail directory to be world writable (and
with sticky bit).


That seems to have done it. I saw this in the wiki I think. Sorry to bother you with a problem that is already documented. Is there any other tweaks or settings that I should know about?

ddh



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