dovecot - Nov 2011 - indexes permissions problem

Hey all, I did a search but didn't find the answer to my problem, so 
here goes.

I've got a centos 6 server running Dovecot 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef).  
For legacy reasons (I'm moving mail from a Dovecot 1.1.1 and FreeBSD box 
with user home directories NFS mounted), my index files are setup to be 
in /u/indexes/

On the Dovecot 1.1.1 installation, the perms on the indexes directory is 
777 with root:mail ownership.

The same thing on the Dovecot 2 / Centos server results in a 'permission 
denied' error when Dovecot tries to create files.
So, I guess my main question is, what perms and ownership should 
/u/indexes be set to?  I've tried several different things before this 
cry for help...

Thanks.

Mark

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 00:30 -0800, Mark Hanford wrote:
> I've got a centos 6 server running Dovecot 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef).  
> For legacy reasons (I'm moving mail from a Dovecot 1.1.1 and FreeBSD
box
> with user home directories NFS mounted), my index files are setup to be 
> in /u/indexes/
> 
> On the Dovecot 1.1.1 installation, the perms on the indexes directory is 
> 777 with root:mail ownership.
> 
> The same thing on the Dovecot 2 / Centos server results in a
'permission
> denied' error when Dovecot tries to create files.
What exactly is the error message? Copy&paste it entirely.
> So, I guess my main question is, what perms and ownership should 
> /u/indexes be set to?  I've tried several different things before this 
> cry for help...
Those permissions look ok to me. It's possible that this was a bug in
2.0.beta6 and upgrading might help (but might not).