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Subject: Re: Yet another thread about Gnus, isync and dovecot mail stack
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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.