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Hi there, after upgrading from 0.99 to 1.2, the following errors appear in the error log: Mar 09 15:50:23 POP3(cwchbodega): Error: fchown(/home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=653(cwchbodega), group based on /var/mail/cwchbodega) Mar 09 15:50:53 POP3(cwchbodega): Error:

Hi: I get the occasional error below. Is there something I don't have configured correctly? Or should I just ignore this? It is not always this file, sometimes it is the cache.lock file or the log.newlock file. I have a mail client running on my computer and my phone at the same time, could that have something to do with it? Nov 10 08:32:59 rabbitbrush dovecot: IMAP(bob):

Hello, I installed 1.2.3 and we are seeing a few messages in the log files such as: --- Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file /home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file /home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted --- dovecot -n: # 1.2.3:

I was glancing at my logwatch report when I noticed: dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fchown(/home/robinmail/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 10(wheel)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=100(users), group based on /var/mail/robinmail): 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fchown(/home/robinmail/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 10(wheel)) failed: Operation not

Hi! I'd like to use deliver (dovecot-1.2.10) as LDA to deliver mails to my local users on my postfix-system. However, deliver tries to copy the filesystem permissions of the mail-spool-files to the user's index files, which doesn't work, since the files in /var/mail/ belong to the group 'mail'. Feb 13 00:21:19 leo-x61 dovecot: deliver(leo):

I am running a very small dovecot installation with only one user (me). I use the Solr indexer for indexing. Due to complicated reasons, I was forced to remove all the indexes and need to re-index everything. All the files in my Maildir are owned by md5i:mail (I am md5i), and have 660 permissions. All directories have the same user:group permissions, and 770 with the setguid bit set. (That

I'm getting the following message in my log; dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted

Hi, After upgrading to 1.2 I started getting fchown errors in the log. They look like: Jul 12 18:32:54 jukebox dovecot: deliver(kim): fchown(/data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users/tmp/1247416373.M857540P19162.jukebox.alleroedderne.adsl.dk, -1, 500(k im)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=12(mail), group based on /data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users) I have tried to get rid of the by changing

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

Hi, Since upgrading dovecot version (from somewhat ancient to 1.2.16), I see messages in the logs like these: Jan 15 00:55:17 srv0303 dovecot: POP3(obm03): fchown(/home/obm/obm03/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1033(obm), group based on /var/mail/obm03) I know that this is because the mailbox in /var/mail has ownership username:mail.

I was able to get public folders to work with a dedicated account for the hierarchy and ACL's for individual users. I have location defined so that each user has a local index and control files location = maildir:/usr/mail/public/cs/mail:CONTROL=~/Maildir/CS:INDEX=~/Maildir/CS Now i am seeing the folliwing error in the logs. dovecot: IMAP(stephen): fchown() failed with file

Dear all, Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed: dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted For .log and .cache as well. We have: location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw: fchown() failed for (line 42)

I have some public mailboxes setup in 1.0.0, location = maildir:/egr/mail/shared/org:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/org:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/indexes/org I also have a dovecot-shared file in the maildir folders so messages that are added to the inbox get a decent set of default permissions. However, I think dovecot is also trying to fchown the index files (stored in a user

Wether the dlm_lock needs to access lvb or not depends on dlm_lock_resource it belongs to. So a new parameter "struct dlm_lock_resource *res" is added to dlm_new_lock() so that we can know if we need to allocate lvb for the dlm_lock. And we have to make the lockres availale for calling dlm_new_lock(). Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com> ---

I was hoping this would be the right place to look for some help, I cannot make public folders get the right permissions. I continually get the fchown error in logs, and have googled high an low to find multiple solutions that do not work for me. I'm using maildir. I have sendmail with postfix distributing my mail. I created maildir's in each users personal directory. I then thought

Regardless of the mail client no user can modify, move, delete or subscribe an imap folder with Dovecot >1.2.1 (meanwhile 1.2.5). Dovecot apparently have some dotlock problems: (From dovecot.log) Oct 02 14:58:19 IMAP(jcci): Error: fchown(/candeias/home/jcci/.mail/Maildir/subscriptions.lock, -1, 0(root)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1003(management), group based on

I cant figure out permissions with Dovecot. I am new with this program and have tried setting the mail group to "mail" which is the group of my mailboxes which are located in /var/spool/mail. Here's the error I get. fs1 dovecot: imap(tl511insight): Error: chown(/home/tl511insight/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=504(tl511insight), group based

I'm getting the following message in my log; dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted

I have dovecot version 2.0.9 I am confused about this article http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm my mail_location = mbox:~/mymail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u So my inbox is at var/mail/ and my imap folder is /home/user/mymail The problem is /var/mail (Owner is useraccount and the group us mail) , and here comes the problem Dovecot keeps trying to chown the imap folder inside the

# dovecot --version 2.3.10.1 (a3d0e1171) Dovecot is unable to start, I see error " Fatal: fchown() failed for /run/dovecot/login: Operation not permitted" what could be the problem? any help please $ls -la /var/mail/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 May 29 17:32 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 May 28 17:08 .. drw------- 2 root root 4096 May