[Dovecot] 1.0.13: mail_extra_groups alternative syntax?

[Dâniel Fraga]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:14:13 +0200
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> It depends on what you use the "mail" and "nogroup" for. The
> mail_privileged_group is used for creating dotlocks to directories where
> you normally don't have write access (/var/mail). mail_access_groups
> gives the process full access to the group, allowing the user to
> read/write to all files/dirs readable/writable by that group.

	Hi Timo, I use "mail" for /var/mail (you're correct):

drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 488 Mar 10 22:26 /var/mail/

	and "nogroup" for /var/spool/virtual. So in thesis, the
following should work, right?

mail_privileged_group = mail

mail_access_groups = nogroup

	At least it seems to work here. Thanks.

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