Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Norbert Veber wrote: While I'm not 100% clear on how dovecot handles permissions, would the fix not be to set mail_access_groups=mail? Per http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm Otherwise your default mail_location can not work unless it writes the files as root or something. This doesnt seem to be the case judging from the permission errors reported earlier. We want to avoid setting mail_access_group=mail because then a user would be able to read everyone elses mailbox. It should not in theory matter is mail_location is set appropriately but it looks like I'll have to investigate it further. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)
While I'm not 100% clear on how dovecot handles permissions, would the fix not be to set mail_access_groups=mail? Per http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm Otherwise your default mail_location can not work unless it writes the files as root or something. This doesnt seem to be the case judging from the permission errors reported earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)
Actually it didnt exist, the directory is empty: nveber@pyre[4761:~]$ ls -al /var/mail total 8 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jul 8 2010 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Nov 4 22:22 .. nveber@pyre[4762:~]$ It seems the default mail_location doesnt work for some reason at least on my system. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:10:55PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Normally it would be a non-fatal error but your /var/mail/%u did > exist but didn't have write permission. > > Set mail_location appropriately and everything should work properly > now and in the future. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Norbert Veber wrote: So it seems my config had no mail_location set, and worked fine that way. Then when I installed -6 it decided to set one causing it to stop working. Once I comment out that line everythign works fine again. I see README.Debian mentions something about this, but its supposed to be a non-fatal error. It seems it isnt? Normally it would be a non-fatal error but your /var/mail/%u did exist but didn't have write permission. Set mail_location appropriately and everything should work properly now and in the future. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)
Hi, So I downgraded to version -5 but the problem was still there. Next I restored my old config files and found the following difference: pyre:/etc# diff -r dovecot/ dovecot.restored/dovecot/ diff -r dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf dovecot.restored/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf 30c30 < mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u --- > #mail_location = So it seems my config had no mail_location set, and worked fine that way. Then when I installed -6 it decided to set one causing it to stop working. Once I comment out that line everythign works fine again. I see README.Debian mentions something about this, but its supposed to be a non-fatal error. It seems it isnt? On my system I use /home/user/Maildir maildir directories to store users mail. Thanks, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
