[Dovecot] Re : Permission denied

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 9 18:07:34 EEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:20, Frédéric Sapin wrote:
> If there are theses permissions the user can receive his mails but it's 
> dangerous I think.
> And if I modify the dovecot.conf file :
> mail_extra_groups = mail
> and if the permissions are the initial permission, and if I enter chmod +t 
> /var/spool/mail the user can't receive his mail.

What are the initial permissions? Does mail group have write rights? It
should work then, and it did last time I tried. The +t isn't needed with
mail_extra_groups=mail, but it gives some extra safety.

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