On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:

Jun 10 14:38:35 s dovecot: imap(bernhard): Error:
file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/bernhard) failed: Permission
denied (euid=1000(bernhard) egid=1000(bernhard) missing +w
perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by
0:8 mode=0775) (set mail_privileged_group=mail)

Workaround:
addgroup bernhard mail
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart #not sure if required


I think you have run into a well known problem. See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-core/README.Debian.gz for a discussion.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jald...@debian.org>


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