[Dovecot] Re: public folders aren't public

[Mark Nienberg]

Mark Nienberg wrote:
> I'm testing dovecot as a replacement for an aging UW-IMAP server.  I 
> have the basic IMAP setup working but I'm stuck on public folders (which 
> my users are addicted to). I set up public folders generally a described 
> in the wiki. The problem is that when a user creates a new public 
> folder, the folder is owned by the user with permissions drwx------ 
> which prevents other users from viewing the contents.

Further testing shows that "umask = 0007"  can be used to fix this.  I'm 
surprised that it is a global setting.  I would have thought that you 
would want a different umask for private and public mailboxes. This 
makes the messages in a user's home directories readable and writeable 
by members of the group.  But I guess they don't really have access to 
the directory in the first place.  Or am I doing something wrong here?

Mark