Package: dovecot-core
Version: 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When configuring dovecot on a system using /var/mail mbox inboxes, dovecot
defaults to locking the inbox by creating a dotfile in /var/mail. When dovecot
runs, it runs as the user, who is not allowed to create files in /var/mail.
This means that deleting or moving a message using an imap client (thunderbird,
roundcube) causes the message to reappear in the inbox as soon as the client
re-checks the mail.
There are a number of possible solutions; the type of lock can be configured in
dovecot, or "ail_privileged_group = mail" can be configured in
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
Since dpkg configures dovecot, including the configuration to use /var/mail
mbox inboxes, it should also make this change.
-- Package-specific info:
dovecot configuration
---------------------
# 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
# OS: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.3
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_privileged_group = mail
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
protocols = " imap"
ssl = no
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dovecot-core depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libexttextcat-2.0-0 3.4.4-2+b1
ii liblz4-1 0.0~r131-2+b1
ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.6
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6
ii libssl1.1 1.1.0f-3+deb9u1
ii libstemmer0d 0+svn585-1+b2
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-26
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
ii openssl 1.1.0f-3+deb9u1
ii ucf 3.0036
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
dovecot-core recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dovecot-core suggests:
pn dovecot-gssapi <none>
ii dovecot-imapd 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u1
pn dovecot-ldap <none>
pn dovecot-lmtpd <none>
pn dovecot-lucene <none>
pn dovecot-managesieved <none>
pn dovecot-mysql <none>
pn dovecot-pgsql <none>
pn dovecot-pop3d <none>
pn dovecot-sieve <none>
pn dovecot-solr <none>
pn dovecot-sqlite <none>
ii ntp 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+deb9u1
Versions of packages dovecot-core is related to:
ii dovecot-core [dovecot-common] 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u1
pn dovecot-dbg <none>
pn dovecot-dev <none>
pn dovecot-gssapi <none>
ii dovecot-imapd 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u1
pn dovecot-ldap <none>
pn dovecot-lmtpd <none>
pn dovecot-managesieved <none>
pn dovecot-mysql <none>
pn dovecot-pgsql <none>
pn dovecot-pop3d <none>
pn dovecot-sieve <none>
pn dovecot-sqlite <none>
-- no debconf information
