dovecot - Jun 2004 - dovecot and fc2

Hello

I am migrate FC1 to FC2, in FC1 i use ipop3d, but in the migration to FC2 this
programa is obsolete, i decide migrate to dovecot, but i have problems with the
old mail
i have the mail stored into /var/spool/mail/USER 
and this error appears with examine the mail with Oulook Express:
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed:
Permission denied
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file
/var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed:
Permission denied
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file
/var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050b08 (0)
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x807c2b4 (1)
Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8062520

into dovecot.conf i have proved differents options

###default_mail_env =  mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
#mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
#maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir
default_mail_env =mbox:~/mail/imap/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u

with pine not have problem to read the mail, but i need pop3 and imap for the
external users
i need help, i have 1 week without email :(

regards and sorry for my english


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On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:33:46PM +0200, Javi Pardo (DAKOTA)
wrote:
> I am migrate FC1 to FC2, in FC1 i use ipop3d, but in the migration to FC2
this programa is obsolete, i decide migrate to dovecot, but i have problems with
the old mail
> i have the mail stored into /var/spool/mail/USER 
> and this error appears with examine the mail with Oulook Express:
> Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock)
failed: Permission denied
> Jun  6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox
file /var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied
Looks to me like Dovecot is trying to create dotlock files within
/var/spool/mail, but doesn't have sufficient permissions to do so.

There are usually two solutions to this:

(1) chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail

This allows any user to create files in /var/spool/mail, but the
'sticky'
bit prevents a user from deleting another user's files.

(2) give the imap/pop3 server sufficient rights to create files under
/var/spool/mail. Typically this means it running as group "mail", and
/var/spool/mail will be mode 775 (rwxrwxr-x) with group owner "mail"

(3) don't use dotlocks at all; use flock or fcntl locking.

I'm only here to learn a bit more about Dovecot and am not actually using it
at the moment, so I don't know how you configure Dovecot for case (2).
> with pine not have problem to read the mail
Perhaps pine is running setgid mail? Try "ls -l /usr/bin/pine".
If so, effectively pine is using solution (2) from above. Otherwise, perhaps
pine is using solution (3).

It's very important that all your applications on the system use the same
locking method, otherwise data corruption will occur when the same mailbox
is accessed twice concurrently.

Personally I would migrate away from mbox to Maildir format; that gets rid
of locking issues altogether.

Regards,

Brian.