[Dovecot] Re: public folders aren't public

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:54 -0700, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> 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?

See the dovecot-shared file explanations in
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders
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