[Dovecot] Problems with Shared Mailbox

[Gerhard Schmidt]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:12PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:11 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> >   location = mbox:/var/mail/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/shared/.control:INDEX=/var/mail/shared/.index
> 
> mbox has no CONTROL directory.

I've got this line from an Example on the Web. 
 
> > -rw-rw----  1 dovecot  vhsal      0 May  7 13:50 dovecot-shared
> > -rw-------  1 estartu  vhsal    376 May  7 13:53 dovecot.index
> > -rw-rw----  1 dovecot  vhsal  23552 May  7 13:53 dovecot.index.cache
> > -rw-rw----  1 dovecot  vhsal   7116 May  7 13:53 dovecot.index.log
> > 
> > How can I gate dovecot to set the permissions of this files to rw-rw---- 
> 
> mbox doesn't support dovecot-shared file either. So unfortunately this
> won't work.
> 
> Also if you used maildir, the dovecot-shared would have to be in the
> maildir directory, not in the index directory.

It was a Test. Didn't expect it to work. 

I've check the soucecode some. In lib-index/mail-index.c the file rights 
for the index files are hard set to 0600. I've changed this to 0660 and
mbox shared mailboxes do function. It might be a bood idea to make this 
configurable. e.g. 
location = mbox:/var/mail/shared:INDEX=/var/mail/shared/.index;0660  

Stetting the index mode globaly to 0660 is no problem in the enoirement 
my server is running but it is not option for most of the others.

Bye
	Estartu

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