[Dovecot] Mail storage creation fails with virtual users

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 30 07:45:45 EET 2009


Not really. mail_access_groups could give some extra security when combined with a proper version of a), but by itself it doesn't solve anything.

On 30.12.2009, at 0.40, Scott H. W. Snyder wrote:

> Could this have something to do with mail_extra_groups?  Or  privileged group?  I tried adding these in to no avail.
> 
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> 
>> Two possibilities:
>> 
>> a) Give it enough permissions (e.g. chmod 01777 /var/mail/folders)
>> 
>> b) Create the directories manually at the same time as creating new
>> users.
> 



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