Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)

2013-01-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Norbert Veber wrote: While I'm not 100% clear on how dovecot handles permissions, would the fix not be to set mail_access_groups=mail? Per http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm Otherwise your default mail_location can not work unless it writes the files as root or

Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)

2013-01-05 Thread Norbert Veber
While I'm not 100% clear on how dovecot handles permissions, would the fix not be to set mail_access_groups=mail? Per http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm Otherwise your default mail_location can not work unless it writes the files as root or something. This doesnt seem to be the case

Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)

2012-12-29 Thread Norbert Veber
Actually it didnt exist, the directory is empty: nveber@pyre[4761:~]$ ls -al /var/mail total 8 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jul 8 2010 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Nov 4 22:22 .. nveber@pyre[4762:~]$ It seems the default mail_location doesnt work for some reason at least on my system. On

Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)

2012-12-28 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Norbert Veber wrote: So it seems my config had no mail_location set, and worked fine that way. Then when I installed -6 it decided to set one causing it to stop working. Once I comment out that line everythign works fine again. I see README.Debian mentions something

Bug#696820: Acknowledgement (Error: open(/var/mail/USER) failed: Permission denied)

2012-12-27 Thread Norbert Veber
Hi, So I downgraded to version -5 but the problem was still there. Next I restored my old config files and found the following difference: pyre:/etc# diff -r dovecot/ dovecot.restored/dovecot/ diff -r dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf dovecot.restored/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf 30c30 mail_location =