[Dovecot] Shared folder doesn't work!

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Fri Jan 19 02:49:35 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:36:07PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:40:14PM -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> > > Brian Lavender wrote:
> > > >I can't seem to get a shared folder working properly. I am authenticating
> > > >using pam, and the users have a shell account on the system. Problem is,
> > > >the permissions on the messages moved into the folder don't maintain
> > > >properly, and other users can't read the share.
> > > 
> > > Did you make a dovecot-shared file?
> > > 
> > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders
> > > 
> > 
> > No, I didn't create that file. Do I just touch the file and change it to
> > the colab group? The users accessing this folder are in the colab group.
> > 
> > # cd /var/mail/public/.notices
> > # touch dovecot-shared
> > # chgrp colab dovecot-shared
> 
> Also make sure that the file mode is correct (g+rw).
> 
> However, the group isn't actually used in rc17. I just fixed it today.
> So either wait for the next release, or get the latest nightly snapshot
> where this is fixed.

It looks as if I have to do create this file dovecot-shared for sub
folders as well?

brian
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