[Dovecot] Feature request for maildir style boxes

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.10.2010, at 23.38, David Ford wrote:

> net-mail group is used by sendmail, procmail, dovecot, and additional
> programs that read/write in the users mail directory. 

Can you give some specific examples?

>    drwxr-x--- david  net-mail /home/david/.maildir
>    drwx------ david     david /home/david/.maildir/cur

Does new/ and tmp/ directories then have netmail-rx so mails can be delivered? What about non-INBOX mailboxes? Or what exactly is the point of not just making .maildir/ 0700? Or if new/ dir is g+rw, is it important that cur/ directory isn't?