[Dovecot] invoking LDA in .forward

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:05 +0100, Jeremie Bouttier wrote:
> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> > How about just setting /var/mail 01777?
> 
> I believe this allows any user to create /var/mail/anotheruser if it 
> does not exist yet. We have several hundred accounts and new ones 
> regularly created, so this is a risk (that could perhaps be mitigated by 
>   creating the inbox at the same time as the account ?). Also the Debian 
> policy specifies that /var/mail be 2775, not that it is sacred to me, 
> but since there are other Debian-packaged MDAs/MUAs on the system I'm a 
> bit wary about changing that.
> 
> A possibly simple solution (and wishlist item) would be that deliver use 
> an external dotlocking program if needed (dotlockfile, mlock...).

I did think about external dotlocking program, but that's kind of kludgy
as well. At some point I'd want to create a LMTP server and deliver
would normally be a simple LMTP client (but optionally deliver
directly), so the server could handle all this permission stuff. But
it's going to take a while.

So .. I don't think there's going to be a solution for this for a while,
at least not from me. How about just delivering mails to ~/mail/inbox
and everything would work fine without special privileges?

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