Re: dovecot.list.index.log owned by root: why?

"Stefan G. Weichinger via dovecot" <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:39:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.dovecot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 01.04.26 um 12:17 schrieb Timo Sirainen via dovecot:

> That's very strange. It's not even supposed to be possible to configure Dovecot in a way that it writes to these files as root. If you look at your logs, can you see what process wrote these files at the time? imap, lmtp? Also what's your full doveconf -n output?

ltmp and imap report problems accessing files (so they seem to run as 
user vmail, as intended).

I am unsure how to look up which process created the files. Maybe I can 
do that be rm-ing them and looking at the logs.




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