[Dovecot] RC15 problems with dovecot-shared and umask distilled

[Glenn Leavell]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:38:09PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:56 -0500, Glenn Leavell wrote:
> > 2. With umask=0007 these files are created with mode 600 instead of 660:
> >         dovecot-uidlist, dovecot.index, dovecot.index.log, messages files
> > 	(cur,tmp,new and the parent directory *are* created 770)
> 
> The reason why umask doesn't work correctly is because I've avoided
> adding code that creates everything with permissions 0666 or 0777. I'm
> not really sure if I just should do it, or if I should figure out
> something else. In any case I'd rather not do anything about this to
> v1.0.
> 
> Why do you want to change the umask?

I don't necessarily want to change the umask.  I started playing with the
umask setting in dovecot.conf when I was first trying to implement shared
folders, and some of the things I was experiencing with the use of the
dovecot-shared file seemed odd (at the time).  So, I decided to play with
the umask setting to see how it works and to find out how it affects the
use of dovecot-shared.

I now think dovecot-shared completely meets my needs for shared folders
(especially with your recent group fix; thanks!), but I reported the
behavior above because I wasn't sure if the umask setting was doing what
you intended it to do.  What's its purpose?  In a Maildir environment, it
seems to control the permissions of a Maildir directory structure, but not
the dovecot-specific files.  Is that right?

Thanks very much,
Glenn

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