Chuck Campbell <campbell at accelinc.com> writes: > I've built a new mail system with Centos 6.5, and I'm running fetchmail - > sendmail - procmail to maildir. I have all of this working at the moment.(I > know, postfix was the default, but for lots of other reasons, I switched, and > that isn't an issue, I don't think). > > I am using dovecot as an imap server. Procmail won't update indexes during email > delivery, so I'm having some performance delays and lags when accessing the > emails via imap. Maildir doesn't have indexes. Are you sure that the delays you're seeing are from dovecot rebuilding them when someone accesses their IMAP account? >>From campbell at accelinc.com Fri Jun 20 14:00:06 2014 > Subject: Re: Uruguay gravity model description > Folder: /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m /home/campbell/Maildir/ 10470 Folder /usr/libexec/...? > procmail: Unlocking "/home/campbell/.lockmail" > procmail: Executing "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver,-m,/home/campbell/Maildir/" > /bin/sh: /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver: Permission denied That looks to me as if 'deliver' is not allowed to write to ~/Maildir. As which user is it running? Can it deliver when you run it as the same user who owns ~/Maildir? -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.