severity 676676 serious thanks I'm using dovecot-pop3d on a server which has just been upgraded from squeeze to wheezy, and found this bug as well. I confirm that without
mail_privileged_group = mail mail is not removed from inbox. I'm marking this bug as RC because a) it should be easy to fix, and b) I really believe we should not release wheezy with this bug. According to dovecot documentation: /var/mail/ dotlocks Often mbox write locks include dotlock, which means that Dovecot needs to create a new "<mbox>.lock" file to the directory where the mbox file exists. If your INBOXes are in /var/mail/ directory you may have to give Dovecot write access to the directory. There are two ways the /var/mail/ directory's permissions have traditionally been set up: * World-writable with sticky bit set, allowing anyone to create new files but not overwrite or delete existing files owned by someone else (ie. same as /tmp). You can do this with chmod a+rwxt /var/mail * Directory owned by a mail group and the directory set to group-writable You can give Dovecot access to mail group by setting: mail_privileged_group = mail Debian policy clearly follows the second model so dovecot should be configured accordingly by default. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
