[Dovecot] Permission issues with subscriptions

Eric A. Bonney mailinglists at vanhlebarsoftware.com
Wed Oct 22 15:01:11 EEST 2008


Thanks Timo!

I didn't realize that the umask = 0777 was actually subtracting the digits 
from the permissions. Once I made the change to this line and we are back to 
being able to add and delete folders again.

Thanks for the help!

-Eric

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 17:47:32 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 10:58 -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> > My users can not create folders at all from their email clients nor from
> > the web interface. I have noticed that each time I try to create a folder
> > the subscriptions files permissions are set to 000. If I go back and
> > reset the permissions to rw-r--r-- then everything is fine until I try to
> > add another folder.
> >
> > running dovecot -n produces the following:
> > # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > umask: 511
>
> 511 decimal = 0777 = created files have permissions set to 000.




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