[Dovecot] v2.0.beta4 released

[Thomas Leuxner]

Am 22.03.2010 um 10:42 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

>> --exec-mail is no longer needed. If you want for example start a imap
>> session, just enter the command: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
>> And you will see:
>> * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 … Logged in as $USER
> 
> Right. Although now that you mentioned it .. Maybe there should be -u parameter also for imap/pop3/etc which also does a userdb lookup so that it'll then be identical to actually logging in.

Let's say I trigger an ACL change by manually setting an administrative user (a permission). Doing so the 'dovecot-acl' file gets owned by the system user who triggered the change, in this case 'root'. Is this intended, as it will break the files OS permissions?

printf "1 setacl Public/Mailing-Lists/Mutt-Users tlx at leuxner.net +k\n" | USER=tlx at leuxner.net /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in as tlx at leuxner.net
1 OK Setacl complete.
Info: Connection closed bytes=60/354
[21:30] root spectre:/var/vmail/public/Mailing-Lists/Mutt-Users# l
total 256
drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 147456 2010-03-22 19:30 cur
-rw------- 1 root  vmail     59 2010-03-22 21:30 dovecot-acl
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail    101 2010-03-22 18:46 dovecot-keywords
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail      0 2010-03-21 22:18 dovecot-shared
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail  88120 2010-03-22 19:27 dovecot-uidlist
drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail   4096 2010-03-22 19:30 new
drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail   4096 2010-03-22 19:27 tmp

Regards
Thomas