Dovecot 0.99.13-2.FC3 update breaks INBOX

Sat Jan 15 18:28:05 UTC 2005

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 08:47 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 with no problems.  I was using Dovecot on FC2 also.
> After I did the update last evening to 0.99.13-2.FC3 I noticed I can no longer
> access my INBOX.  My inbox is stored on /var/mail/.  I noticed that the
> /etc/dovecot.conf now has a date of last night.  There was no reference during
> the update of any config file updates which I've noticed in other package
> updates (i.e. config now .rpmnew etc).  Checking the log, I am now getting
> ===>  open(/var/mail/userid.lock) failed:  Permission denied <==== messages.  I
> wanted to put this message out to warn others before accepting this update.
> Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to fix this?
> 

 Here is a fix,  http://wiki.dovecot.org/VarMailDotLock

 This seems to be a similar problem with FC2,
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg08101.html

 This also seems to relate, ,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113491