On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:48:01 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 11:13 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote: > > Sep 10 01:28:38 seymour dovecot: IMAP(steffen,192.168.28.31): > > fchown(/home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions.lock) failed: Operation not > > permitted > > This'll improve the error message: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/c22b7db8c173 > > > File permissions are: > > > > -rw------- 1 steffen elsner 124 Aug 22 12:51 > > /home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions > > What about /home/Mail/steffen directory's? It's probably trying to > preserve its group. If so, either change the group or chmod g+s it or > give mail process permission for that group.
# ls -dal /home/Mail/steffen drwxr-x--- 19 steffen mail 4096 Sep 10 22:12 /home/Mail/steffen/ --Frank Elsner
