Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Burn Alting um 1:07:
Well, I changed /etc/dovecot.conf to have
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
and unfortunately I get the same problem ...
Jul 1 08:52:24 swtf dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jul 1 08:52:37 swtf pop3-login: Login: judy [192.168.1.135] Jul 1 08:53:08 swtf pop3(judy): unlink(/var/spool/mail/judy.lock) failed: Permission denied
I then changed /etc/dovecot.conf to have mbox_locks = fcntl rather than the default (which I believe is dotlock fcntl) and lo and behold, I could pick up the e-mail.
I'm relatively happy now, but I'd love to know why dotlock locking doesn't work. Does some service other than dovecot need to be started/configured?
Nothing else. Please read
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003636.html
and it's answer. For a Fedora specific entry see bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113491
and
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg00737.html
You didn't do something wrong.
Burn
Alexander