[PLUG] [Fwd: Broken courier - SOLVED]

["Mike Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

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Subject: Broken courier - SOLVED
From:    "Mike Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>
Date:    Sun, December 23, 2007 12:34 am
To:      "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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Dunno why my message didn't come thru, but I solved it.

Recap - on updating Courier on Debian testing, I got the bug about
"Fatal error: Account's mailbox directory is not owned by the correct
uid or gid: No such file or directory" (apparently a known bug, but the
solution says to apply a patch and recompile, definitely what I did NOT
want to do. (if I wanted to compile my own packages, I wouldn't be using
Debian and the joy that is apt ..). If they know that, and it's a 2 line
fix (as they say), then why they didn't just apply the patch back on Dec
7, and re-release the patched package is beyond me ... very odd ...

Anyways, the solution turned out to be to change the primary group
associated with the user. After a couple of hours of searching, I found
that "usermod -g turgon turgon" fixed me right up. Apparently, Courier
only bothers looking at the primary group, and not all groups that the
user belongs to. And since it saw that my primary group was not the
group own of the Maildir, it told me to go fsck myself (more or less ...)

Anyways, I have it resolved, and maybe this will help some other user
who gets bit by this bug ...



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