[Dovecot] wrong permission

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:02 +0200, Cor Bosman wrote:
> Im still finding a number of control directories that have the wrong
> permission:
> 
> Jun 26 00:02:34 userimap13.xs4all.nl dovecot: IMAP(xxx): file_dotlock_create(/var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/g/gl/xxx/INBOX/.Apple Mail To Do/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied
> 
> userimap1# ls -al "/var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/g/gl/xxx/INBOX/.Apple Mail To Do" total 8
> drw-------  2 xxx  user  4096 May 12 23:43 .
> drwx------  7 xxx  user  4096 May 12 23:43 ..

So the problem is it's 0600 instead of 0700?

> This folder was created May 12, well after us starting to use 1.1RC versions.
> I currently fixed a few hundred of these (out of millions of folders), and
> whats interesting is that a very large percentage of those (1/3th) is
> the folder "Apple Mail To Do", created by Mail.App I think. Obviously that
> same folder is no where near 1/3th of our total folder number, so thats
> a bit strange.

Maybe because OS X users were upgrading to Leopard and its Mail.app
started creating these mailboxes?

> I really doubt this is some local setting issue, because then id see much
> more of those. Right now it's a tiny fraction of our total folder amount,
> which leads me to believe it's some weird edge case in the dovecot code.

Do you have dovecot-shared files anywhere? Have you specified umask
setting in dovecot.conf?
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