Re: [Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox

2011-04-08 Thread tl511
That fixed it!! Thanks so much. Not sure why that isn't in the documentation. Joseph Tam-2 wrote: tlmo...@gmail.com writes: Apr 7 07:44:51 fs1 dovecot: imap(tim): Error: chown(/home/tim/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 97(dovecot)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=500(tim), group based

Re: [Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox

2011-04-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 16:43 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: Dovecot seems to transfer group permissions of the mailbox to its corresponding cache. If it can't set group ownership, you get the fatal error message above.If the original mailbox is mode 0600, dovecot is smart enough not to set

[Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox

2011-04-07 Thread tl511
I cant figure out permissions with Dovecot. I am new with this program and have tried setting the mail group to mail which is the group of my mailboxes which are located in /var/spool/mail. Here's the error I get. fs1 dovecot: imap(tl511insight): Error:

[Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox

2011-04-07 Thread Joseph Tam
tlmo...@gmail.com writes: Apr 7 07:44:51 fs1 dovecot: imap(tim): Error: chown(/home/tim/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 97(dovecot)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=500(tim), group based on /var/mail/tim) How do I give permissions to dovecot program to create these? I am trying not to chmod 777