dovecot - Jul 2006 - Permissions issue in OpenBSD

I jumped right in and followed the "Quick Configuration" guide after 
installing dovecot (dovecot-1.0.beta3.tgz) on my OpenBSD 3.9 box. I had 
previously been using akpop3d (which worked, but was flaky). I am 
getting the following errors in /var/log/maillog:

Jul 23 22:40:29 kingcull dovecot: pop3(jm): 
open(/var/mail/.temp.myserver.mymail.com.19038.10090e2f3cc51a4b) failed: 
Permission denied

Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3(jm): file_lock_dotlock() failed 
with mbox file /var/mail/jm: Permission denied

Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3(jm): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, 
retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0

Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jm>, 
method=PLAIN, rip=67.33.58.194, lip=67.33.58.195, TLS

Could someone offer a clue as to what is needed to fix this?

Thanx,
Jay

J Moore wrote:
> Jul 23 22:40:29 kingcull dovecot: pop3(jm): 
> open(/var/mail/.temp.myserver.mymail.com.19038.10090e2f3cc51a4b) failed: 
> Permission denied
> 
> Could someone offer a clue as to what is needed to fix this?
> 
> Thanx,
> Jay
> 
That's due to locking. Permissions on OpenBSD for /var/mail are a bit 
different. So - try different mechanism for at least mbox locking (fcntl or 
flock, etc.).