dovecot - Jul 2005 - file locks

Hi

I am trying to install 1.0 stable from source on a test server running 0.99
on  FC3.
 i did basic ./configure etc and get this result

Jul 13 17:24:26 proteus4 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec):
open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.proteus4.4485.e3eec7b26a559bac) failed:
Permission denied
Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): file_lock_dotlock() failed
with mbox file /var/spool/mail/obantec: Permission denied
Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: obantec [192.168.0.10]

when trying to access a test account.

permissions all look as per old 0.99 which did work.

Mark

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:29, Obantec Support wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install 1.0 stable from source on a test server
> running 0.99 on  FC3.
>  i did basic ./configure etc and get this result
>
> Jul 13 17:24:26 proteus4 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
> Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec):
> open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.proteus4.4485.e3eec7b26a559bac) failed:
> Permission denied
> Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): file_lock_dotlock()
> failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/obantec: Permission denied
> Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: obantec
> [192.168.0.10]
>
> when trying to access a test account.
>
> permissions all look as per old 0.99 which did work.
>
> Mark
Switch to using fcntl, unless you have a good reason not to.

Cheers,
-- 
Dominic Marks

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:29 +0100, Obantec Support
wrote:
> Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec):
> open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.proteus4.4485.e3eec7b26a559bac) failed:
> Permission denied
> Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): file_lock_dotlock() failed
> with mbox file /var/spool/mail/obantec: Permission denied
> Mark
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VarMailDotLock

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Hi Timo

adding mail_extra_groups = mail has let me get further.

i copied a user mbox across to the testbox and found i could not read the
mail. looking at the mail it had a new line at the top and what look like
message markers between emails. anyway dropping the first blank line i got
the mails and the mbox has what looks like holding text to keep the mbox
with some data.

<quote>
>From MAILER_DAEMON  Wed Jul 13 20:07:10 2005
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:07:10 +0100
From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at proteus4>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
Message-ID: <1121281630 at proteus4>
X-IMAP: 1121280534 0000000123
Status: RO

This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
with the data reset to initial values.
<end quote>

I have seen this on old pop3 mbox files on RH6.2 server i had a while back.

i also had to add ssl_disable = yes to stop Cert warnings, which i did not
do in 0.99

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi>
To: "Obantec Support" <support at obantec.net>
Cc: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] file locks