dovecot - Apr 2007 - Dovecot 1.0rc30 message ownership set as root mail

I've compiled the latest release candidate of dovecot and I am 
encountering a strange problem when mail is delivered. I have my 
installation configured to use Maildir. When messages arrive, they are 
placed in the correct user directory, but the ownership for individual 
messages is set to root and the group set to mail. This prevents these 
messages from being displayed in my client. The error message logged is 
as follows:

dovecot: Apr 08 13:11:08 Error: IMAP(mel): 
open(/home/mel/Maildir/cur/_d2F.eyKGGB.mjolnir:2,) failed: Permission denied

The file permissions for the message are as follows:

-rw-------  1 root mail 1805 2007-04-08 13:02 _AqG.VxTGGB.mjolnir:2,

I also noticed that the log file in the root Maildir also has the same 
ownership assigned (not the user's uid/gid).

Unless something has changed in dovecot.conf, this behavior is somewhat 
unexpected. I've included my config file in case there is something 
obvious that I am missing:

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot
protocols = imaps

protocol imap {
    listen = imap.domain.com
    ssl_listen = 0.0.0.0:993
    imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail
}

disable_plaintext_auth = yes
shutdown_clients = yes

log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log

ssl_disable = no
ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imap.domain.com.crt
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imap.domain.com.key

login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login
login_chroot = yes
login_user = dovecot
login_process_per_connection = yes
login_processes_count = 8
login_max_processes_count = 32

verbose_ssl = yes
mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX:/var/mail/%u
mail_full_filesystem_access = no
mail_save_crlf = no
verbose_proctitle = yes
max_mail_processes = 128
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
mmap_disable = no
lock_method = fcntl

umask = 0077

auth default {
    mechanisms = plain

    passdb shadow {
        args = /etc/shadow
    }

    userdb passwd {
        args = /etc/passwd
    }

}


If anyone could help clarify this behavior, it would be greatly appreciated.

Mel

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:18 -0600, Mel Llaguno wrote:
> I've compiled the latest release candidate of dovecot and I am 
> encountering a strange problem when mail is delivered. I have my 
> installation configured to use Maildir. When messages arrive, they
> are 
> placed in the correct user directory, but the ownership for
> individual 
> messages is set to root and the group set to mail.
..
> -rw-------  1 root mail 1805 2007-04-08 13:02 _AqG.VxTGGB.mjolnir:2,
What delivers the mails to maildir? You're not using Dovecot LDA because
Dovecot doesn't create filenames like this. So your problem really has
nothing to do with Dovecot, but rather the configuration of your MTA or
mail delivery agent.



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Thanks for your help. I suspected as much. I use procmail as the LDA.

Mel

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:18 -0600, Mel Llaguno wrote:
>
>   
>> I've compiled the latest release candidate of dovecot and I am 
>> encountering a strange problem when mail is delivered. I have my 
>> installation configured to use Maildir. When messages arrive, they
>> are 
>> placed in the correct user directory, but the ownership for
>> individual 
>> messages is set to root and the group set to mail.
>>     
> ..
>   
>> -rw-------  1 root mail 1805 2007-04-08 13:02 _AqG.VxTGGB.mjolnir:2,
>>     
>
> What delivers the mails to maildir? You're not using Dovecot LDA
because
> Dovecot doesn't create filenames like this. So your problem really has
> nothing to do with Dovecot, but rather the configuration of your MTA or
> mail delivery agent.
>
>
>
>