On 04-Oct-2000 Kevin Diffily spoke something to the effect:
> I have run into a serious problem with IMAP on my server. I can read
> and write to mailboxes but when I try to delete messages I receive a
> "read only mailbox error" from my email client.
>
> Relevant info:
> -Mailboxes are located in ~/Mail. Owned by the the user. Permissions
> 600 or 700.
> I have tried setting them to 777 to test for an obvious permission
> problem.
> - Problem surfaced after moving /usr and /var directories to another
> drive and then making a symbolic link for these directories in the
> root filesystem.
> - IMAP-4.7 off of the RH 6.2 CD.
>
> The documentation that comes with this is pretty sparse. Anyone have
> any ideas as to what is causing this and possible remedies?
Likely a permission problem on /var/spool/mail/$USER and everything above
it (/var, /var/spool, etc). It isn't too wise setting all of the
directories as RW to regular users.
You can try setting permissions for /var/spool/mail/$USER to RW and make
sure the user owns it (shared with group mail on mine). It still may give
the same problem because of the directories above it.
I had similar problems with IMAP before, with /var on a partition all its
own. I never solved it (never really tried) except by changing to POP3 for
local delivery as well.
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