[Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:53 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
> > What permissions does /var/spool/mail/john have? I guess mail group has
> > read permissions? Just removing that should fix the error.
> 
> -rw-rw----  1 john mail 5676767 Aug  4 19:50 /var/spool/mail/john
> 
> Those are the default permissions that sendmail uses I believe. Not sure 
> if removing "mail" group r/w would have any other impact for 
> sendmail/procmail? Thanks for taking the time to help.

It depends on your setup, but usually mail group shouldn't need read or
write access to users' mails. Seems like a security risk to me in any
case.

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