dovecot - Aug 2003 - more transitional joys

well, now that I have moved to dovecot, I'm not getting any spam... in fact,
I'm
not getting e-mail at all.

default_mail_env =mbox:~/IMap2/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission problems:

Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) failed: 
Permission denied
Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file 
/var/spool/mail/esj: Permission denied

so I changed permissions on /var/spool/mail to 777 as a temporary work around. 
no luck.  It tells me that I have no e-mail in my inbox... fat chance

[root at harvee mail]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/esj
-rw-------    1 esj      mail       167772 Aug 14 18:05 /var/spool/mail/esj

what simply obvious thing I am I missing now?

---eric

On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 01:06 Europe/Helsinki, Eric S. Johansson 
wrote:
> when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission 
> problems:
>
> Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) 
> failed: Permission denied
> Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox 
> file /var/spool/mail/esj: Permission denied
Hmh. I guess I'll really have to fix this too soon since everyone keeps 
having this problem.
> so I changed permissions on /var/spool/mail to 777 as a temporary work 
> around. no luck.  It tells me that I have no e-mail in my inbox... fat 
> chance
Maybe it thinks the mbox is synchronized even while it stopped in 
error. Try rm -f  .imap/INBOX/.imap.index*. Or just touching the mbox.

Mixing mboxes and maildirs isn't possible with .10, but will be in next 
version.