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Hello all, We use an older version of dovecot 2.0.19 on Ubuntu 12.04 using an NFS share, also a linux box. Now we want to migrate the storage to a FreeBSD server and later on the mailservers them self. In the firsts test all looks fine, but we do see some errors some times. Error: nfs_flush_chown_uid: chown(/var/mail/virtual/domain.com/user/Maildir) failed: Invalid argument This does not happen all the time but sometimes it shows up. I can read all the mail using an mailclient and the uid shows the user vmail:vmail. Is this cosmetic or is there something wrong? Thanks for your time Regards j...

...I understand that on some filesystems, a 'chown' call can end up losing any setuid or setgid bits on an inode - and apparently Netapp's WAFL file system is one of them. Looking at the dovecot source code, I *believe* the source of the chown call is in src/lib/nfs-workarounds.c function nfs_flush_chown_uid - where a 'chown' call is being used to flush NFS attribute caches? for what I believe is the purposes of ascertaining file lock status? My question for you folks is if anyone else has encountered this on other file systems (or filers) - and if there is a native method in dovecot - either...

...to share folder "JasonAlerts" within mailbox operations to user u1.name Issues: 1. Shared mailboxes do not appear under subscriptions in Thunderbird for another user 2. When I try to set permissions via IMAP commands I get in /var/log/dovecot.log Aug 26 20:33:24 imap(operations): Error: nfs_flush_chown_uid: chown(/var/lib/dovecot/db) failed: Permission denied 3. The permissions for the file are: root at dal-notify-01 Maildir]# ls -la /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db -rw-rw-r--. 1 operations sharedusers 197 Aug 26 20:33 /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db 4. Users I'm testing with are p...

...con.log at ika.gr/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=10054601(<unknown>) egid=165(<unknown>) missing +x perm: /indexes/2/b/0/diefecon.log at ika.gr, dir owned by 10107819:165 mode=0700) Feb 25 09:07:01 pop02 dovecot: lmtp(20931, sub1ika at ika.gr): Error: nfs_flush_chown_uid: stat(/indexes/2/b/0/diefecon.log at ika.gr/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied Feb 25 09:07:01 pop02 dovecot: lmtp(20931, sub1ika at ika.gr): Error: stat(/indexes/2/b/0/diefecon.log at ika.gr/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied (euid=10054601(<unknown>) egid=165(<u...

...onAlerts" within mailbox operations to user u1.name > > Issues: > 1. Shared mailboxes do not appear under subscriptions in Thunderbird for another user > 2. When I try to set permissions via IMAP commands I get in /var/log/dovecot.log > Aug 26 20:33:24 imap(operations): Error: nfs_flush_chown_uid: chown(/var/lib/dovecot/db) failed: Permission denied > 3. The permissions for the file are: > root at dal-notify-01 Maildir]# ls -la /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db > -rw-rw-r--. 1 operations sharedusers 197 Aug 26 20:33 /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db > 4. Users I'...

...systems, a 'chown' call can end up > losing any setuid or setgid bits on an inode - and apparently Netapp's > WAFL file system is one of them. > > Looking at the dovecot source code, I *believe* the source of the > chown call is in src/lib/nfs-workarounds.c function > nfs_flush_chown_uid - where a 'chown' call is being used to flush NFS > attribute caches? for what I believe is the purposes of ascertaining > file lock status? > > My question for you folks is if anyone else has encountered this on > other file systems (or filers) - and if there is a native me...

...n mailbox operations to user u1.name >> >> Issues: >> 1. Shared mailboxes do not appear under subscriptions in Thunderbird for another user >> 2. When I try to set permissions via IMAP commands I get in /var/log/dovecot.log >> Aug 26 20:33:24 imap(operations): Error: nfs_flush_chown_uid: chown(/var/lib/dovecot/db) failed: Permission denied >> 3. The permissions for the file are: >> root at dal-notify-01 Maildir]# ls -la /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 operations sharedusers 197 Aug 26 20:33 /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db >>...