On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:41 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 00:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > > > a) Upgrade to v1.0.11 and use the new mail_privileged_group setting > > > > instead of mail_extra_groups. > > > > > > We tried this but now the mail.log has a number of lines : > > > « dovecot: IMAP(someuser): open(/var/mail/.temp.XXXX) failed: Permission > > > denied » > > > > Oh, this is actually harmless. You can get rid of it (and improve the > > performance) by setting dotlock_use_excl=yes. > > > > But maybe I should release v1.0.12 anyway with that error message > > silenced.. > > You mean seeing that error message only is actually not an error, > because the next locking method just works?
Right. Also fixed it now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/a9ac53bc191b > In that case, great -- I'll go change dotlock_use_excl, revert the scary > option (b) of chmod world-writable, and see how it works out. Not using > NFS anyway. dotlock_use_excl=yes works also in all modern NFS systems. I doubt anyone is still using NFSv2. This setting is now default in v1.1.
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