[Dovecot] /var/mail/<user> and mail group privileges

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Thursday 10 of February 2011 02:54:39 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 14:08 +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 00:47:16 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > On 3.1.2011, at 19.15, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't mkdir and chown make together a transaction? When it
> > > > fails just for first time, it confuses some admins (this is the
> > > > reason why I'm getting complains (bug reports) just because
> > > > missing/wrong
> > > > configuration). I think it a) should work even for first
> > > > connection
> > > > (ignore chown failure) or b)it should not work for following
> > > > connection, so the behavior should be more consistent.
> > 
> > I think a) is better for lazy admins, but b) is more correct, because
> > other way it's (a little bit) harder to find out this error - having
> > wrong permissions in situations when group is really required.
> 
> I implemented a) a while ago.

yes, I've noticed it. Thanks