[Dovecot] Feature request for maildir style boxes

[David Ford]

On 10/05/2010 07:17 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> It can't do delivery as net-mail group if they're 0700.

dovecot runs as my userid; david:david so it has permissions for
accessing anything in .maildir/ and below.  this is why it gets EPERM
errors when it tries to set the group id of net-mail.

it's a bug in dovecot to assume a) the user wants this gid change even
without setgid, and b) that it can change the gid to an arbitrary value
of a parent directory.

other software runs as <something>:net-mail, and it's use and operation
is not applicable to this discussion.  mode 0700 is not functional for
this group of software and mode 0770 is too lax.