dovecot - Sep 2009 - fchown failed

Hello


I occasionally get the following error in dovecot log
I've replaced the username by xxxxxxx

/user is the user's home directories place, does this means
it must be owned by the "mail" group ?


Sep 14 09:20:48 IMAP(xxxxxxx): Error:
fchown(/user/xxxxxxx/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed:
Operation not permitted (egid=3420(math), group based on /var/mail/xxxxxxx)



Thanks

On Monday 14 September 2009 09.36.45 Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> I occasionally get the following error in dovecot log
> I've replaced the username by xxxxxxx
>
> /user is the user's home directories place, does this means
> it must be owned by the "mail" group ?
>
>
> Sep 14 09:20:48 IMAP(xxxxxxx): Error:
> fchown(/user/xxxxxxx/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed:
> Operation not permitted (egid=3420(math), group based on /var/mail/xxxxxxx)
v1.2.0 2009-07-01 Timo Sirainen

	* When creating files or directories to mailboxes, Dovecot now uses
	  the mailbox directory's permissions and GID for them. Previous
	  versions simply used 0600 mode always. For backwards compatibility
	  dovecot-shared file's permissions still override these with Maildir.

		/ http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS-1.2 /

Also, searching for similar errors in the list archives yields very useful 
informations.


Daniel

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On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Sep 14 09:20:48 IMAP(xxxxxxx): Error:
> fchown(/user/xxxxxxx/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail))  
> failed:
> Operation not permitted (egid=3420(math), group based on /var/mail/ 
> xxxxxxx)
chmod 0600 /var/mail/*

should help. I'm trying to get distros and upstream to do that by  
default..