Bug#641247: dovecot-imapd: Get IMAP Error: fchown

September 12th, 2011 - 12:40 am ET by Andrew Buckeridge | Report spam
Package: dovecot-imapd
Version: 1:1.2.15-7
Severity: important


User can not create folders or save email.
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot...13083.html
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot...42431.html

The umask option to mitigate this problem has been removed.

Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (800, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dovecot-imapd depends on:
ii dovecot-common 1:1.2.15-7 secure mail server that supports m
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-7.2 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze1 SSL shared libraries

dovecot-imapd recommends no packages.

dovecot-imapd suggests no packages.


Log file with usernames replaced with ???.

2011-09-12 11:37:03 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9998/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:04 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9878/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:05 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9703/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:05 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9703/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:05 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9703/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:06 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9986/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:06 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9986/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:06 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9986/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:07 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9986/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:07 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10164/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:07 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10050/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:07 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10111/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:08 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9860/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:09 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9862/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:09 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10050/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:10 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10025/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:12 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10013/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:13 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/export/home/???/Maildir/.Sent/tmp/1315798632.M862106P16609.thot, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Sent)
2011-09-12 11:37:15 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9928/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:16 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9933/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:18 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9215/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:19 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9686/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:20 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9933/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:22 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9275/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:23 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/export/home/???/Maildir/.Sent/tmp/1315798643.M221831P15136.thot, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Sent)
2011-09-12 11:37:25 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9860/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:26 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9788/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:28 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9160/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:28 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9812/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:29 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10100/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:30 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9672/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:30 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9123/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:30 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10158/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:38 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9043/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:39 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10071/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:43 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9104/.Trash/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:43 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9104/.Trash/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:43 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9104/.Trash/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:43 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9104/.Trash/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:47 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9933/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:48 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9941/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:48 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9934/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:37:58 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9952/.Trash/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:58 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9952/.Trash/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:58 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/9952/.Trash/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir/.Trash)
2011-09-12 11:37:58 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9488/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:38:02 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10126/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:38:03 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9800/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:38:03 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10071/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)
2011-09-12 11:38:04 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/10104/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)



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#1 Timo Sirainen
September 12th, 2011 - 03:40 am ET | Report spam
On 12.9.2011, at 7.34, Andrew Buckeridge wrote:

2011-09-12 11:37:03 IMAP(???): Error: fchown(/var/lib/dovecot/control/9998/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 9111(mailusers)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid00(bgcuser), group based on /export/home/???/Maildir)



Dovecot copies the Maildir's permissions when creating any new files. This is required for shared mailboxes to work correctly. So your possibilities are to either:

a) chmod 0700 /export/home/???/Maildir

b) Give Dovecot access to mailusers group: mail_access_groups = mailusers





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