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

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.1.2007, at 23.47, Glenn Leavell wrote:
> 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?

It doesn't really have any thought out purpose. Probably the whole  
setting shouldn't even exist. :) I guess I should mark it that way in  
dovecot.conf, or even remove it completely..

I did have some vague ideas that it should control the permissions of  
all the files created by imap/pop3 processes. But that's not how it  
currently works. Maybe some day in future.

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