If after installing Dovecot on OpenBSD you get the following error when you try to access your mailbox:
open(/var/mail/.temp.host.1234.abcdefg) failed: Permission denied
file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: Permission denied
then uncomment & change the mbox_write_locks entry in /etc/dovecot from mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl to mbox_write_locks = fcntl
Everything should spring to life afterwards! 🙂
freaking awesome, this was drive me nuts! Thanks for the fix ^_^
Hey. Thanks for this posting. I’ve literally spent 5 hours cursing trying to set up a VPS – and this was the line I needed to uncomment.
I can go to sleep happy now.
Thanks 🙂
thanks for your sharing…. it becomes my mail server alive again.
Thanks for this, nice to see that someone has got the answers, also works for Mandriva.
Thanks for these useful share.
thanks a lot…