dovecot - Sep 2008 - Expunge working on folders, but not main mailbox

I've recently installed dovecot, and while the behavior on folders is 
correct, the inbox cannot be expunged.

This is 1.1.3 running on Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on ext3 
filesystems, using both thunderbird and squirrel clients.

Any assistance would be appreciated.
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# 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
info_log_path: /tmp/dovecot.log
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
plugin:
  mail_log_events: all

On 9/29/2008, Xev Gittler (xgittler at schore.org)
wrote:
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
Logs of an attempt to expunge the Inbox?

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Best regards,

Charles

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:28 -0400, Xev Gittler wrote:
> I've recently installed dovecot, and while the behavior on folders is 
> correct, the inbox cannot be expunged.
..
> mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
It probably doesn't have permissions to create dotlock
to /var/spool/mail/. But it should have complained about this in the
logs. Setting mail_privileged_group=mail will probably help.

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Thanks - someone else recommended that and it worked.
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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:28 -0400, Xev Gittler wrote:
>   
>> I've recently installed dovecot, and while the behavior on folders
is
>> correct, the inbox cannot be expunged.
>>     
> ..
>   
>> mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
>>     
>
> It probably doesn't have permissions to create dotlock
> to /var/spool/mail/. But it should have complained about this in the
> logs. Setting mail_privileged_group=mail will probably help.
>
>