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

2013-01-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: ...but something else must be going on as well: That change warned about in that accidentally silenced NEWS entry is way old, and what I did yesterday on multiple machines was update from 1:2.1.7-2. Seems to me that if I chose in earlier updates to

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

2013-01-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[re-sending to proper addresses] Quoting Jaldhar H. Vyas (2013-01-14 21:34:10) On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: ...but something else must be going on as well: That change warned about in that accidentally silenced NEWS entry is way old, and what I did yesterday on multiple

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

2012-12-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jaldhar H. Vyas (2012-12-29 02:52:15) On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Latest package release changed /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf to hardcode mail_location to use mbox and /var/mail as mailspool. Upstream default of leaving that variable undefined is to try

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

2012-12-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2012-12-29 13:25:59) Quoting Jaldhar H. Vyas (2012-12-29 02:52:15) On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Latest package release changed /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf to hardcode mail_location to use mbox and /var/mail as mailspool. Upstream

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

2012-12-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: dovecot Followup-For: Bug #696820 Latest package release changed /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf to hardcode mail_location to use mbox and /var/mail as mailspool. Upstream default of leaving that variable undefined is to try both mbox and Maildir. Therefore, this change breaks systems

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

2012-12-28 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Latest package release changed /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf to hardcode mail_location to use mbox and /var/mail as mailspool. Upstream default of leaving that variable undefined is to try both mbox and Maildir. But I can't do that. See

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

2012-12-27 Thread Norbert Veber
Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 1:2.1.7-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, Dovecot-imapd was working perfectly until the latest update. Now I get the following error every time I try to login: Dec 27 13:07:07 pyre dovecot: imap(nveber): Error: open(/var/mail/nveber)