From: "Bartosz Kaczyński" <bk@asterio.cloud>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>
Cc: ding@lists.math.uh.edu
Subject: Re: Yet another thread about Gnus, isync and dovecot mail stack
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:38:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d135565b-88f8-9980-8cc1-ce7e3e130abb@asterio.cloud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmimtce4vdc.fsf@s1.lexort.com>
Yes, indeed it is. And honestly I didn't resolve it yet with dovecot
from repos on my GNU/Linux distribution, but I ran dovecot as a rootless
podman container which actually gives me some level of security of my
local mailbox.
On 8/8/22 17:18, Greg Troxel wrote:
> It sounds like you really have a dovecot problem, not a gnus problem.
> dovecot needs to be able to write to your mailstore.
>
> I would suggest pointing some other imap client against it and seeing
> what's happens.
>
> usually people start dovecot as root, have some kind of user/pass
> login, and dovecot setuid's to the use.
>
> I have been using gnus with dovecot for a very long time, maybe 2005 or
> 2006, with no permissions issues.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-10 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-07 18:34 bk
2022-08-07 20:25 ` bk
2022-08-08 15:18 ` Greg Troxel
2022-08-10 6:38 ` Bartosz Kaczyński [this message]
2022-08-08 15:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-08-10 6:34 ` Bartosz Kaczyński
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