dovecot - Jun 2016 - Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox

Hi,

I'm running Dovecot and Thunderbird, with 2 separate accounts (business 
and personal). One operates fine, but the other one won't allow me to 
write replies to the Inbox (so that I can track current threads), and if 
I move emails to another folder, it copies them instead. New emails do 
appear in the Inbox.

I've checked the permissions on the two Inboxes, and they are the same 
(except for the owner name). I've tried compacting the problem Inbox, 
but that hasn't changed things.

Edwin
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How about some /var/log/dovecot.log lines ?




----- Original Message -----
From: Edwin Humphries <edwinh at earthcaretech.com.au>
To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 1:22 AM
Subject: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox

Hi,

I'm running Dovecot and Thunderbird, with 2 separate accounts (business 
and personal). One operates fine, but the other one won't allow me to 
write replies to the Inbox (so that I can track current threads), and if 
I move emails to another folder, it copies them instead. New emails do 
appear in the Inbox.

I've checked the permissions on the two Inboxes, and they are the same 
(except for the owner name). I've tried compacting the problem Inbox, 
but that hasn't changed things.

Edwin

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche at yahoo.com>
To: Edwin Humphries <edwinh at earthcaretech.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox

We have made a copy of our mail server and we sometimes rsync files between the
original server and the copy so that when we need to do maintenance work we
unplug the production server and put the copy server in lieu. We later found out
that rsync needs to be run with the --no-numeric-ids argument to keep owners and
groups intact, otherwise you end up with weired owners and groups.

Yassine.



________________________________

From: Edwin Humphries <edwinh at earthcaretech.com.au>
To: chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox



Chaouche

Duh! I reproduced the issue, then found the log file (mail.log, in
   my case) and found that that user wasn't in the mail group (which is
   itself a puzzle, because it used to be, but not sure I'm going to
   spend much time investigating why); added the user to the mail
   group, restarted dovecot, and hey presto, everything works.

Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051

EarthCare Technology (a division of Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd)
79 Barney St, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Web: http://www.earthcaretech.com.au

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On 07/06/16 19:20, chaouche yacine wrote:

How about some /var/log/dovecot.log lines ? ----- Original Message -----
From: Edwin Humphries <edwinh at earthcaretech.com.au> To: Dovecot Mailing
List <dovecot at dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 1:22 AM
Subject: Can't delete emails from or write replies to Inbox Hi, I'm
running Dovecot and Thunderbird, with 2 separate accounts (business
and personal). One operates fine, but the other one won't allow me to 
write replies to the Inbox (so that I can track current threads), and if 
I move emails to another folder, it copies them instead. New emails do 
appear in the Inbox. I've checked the permissions on the two Inboxes, and
they are the same
(except for the owner name). I've tried compacting the problem Inbox, 
but that hasn't changed things. Edwin