On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:07:49PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> I tried this. The following is logged: >> >> Apr 18 00:12:01 asterix dovecot: IMAP(mar...@example.com): >> fchown(/var/spool/dovecot/users/example.com/markus/Maildir/control/ >> shared/subscriptions.lock, >> -1, 0) failed: Operation not permitted > > It tries to preserve the group. Try chmod g+s to the empty directory.
That worked. Thanks again.