[Dovecot] Re : Permission denied

Frédéric Sapin fred99 at libertysurf.fr
Fri Jul 9 18:15:42 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.

Initial permissions are rwxrwxr-x	root mail
So mail group have right permission.
I have not try with rwxrwxr-t permission. I will try and I will get back to 
you.
Excuse me for this question but what represents the t exactly ?

Thanks a lot

Frederic






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