[Dovecot] umask setting

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jan 16 21:37:41 EET 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 09:48 -0500, PA wrote:
> Hi, I have a user called archive that gets a BCC of all incoming/outgoing
> email. I would like to have the email in the new/cur directories setup to be
> read only, is there a way to do this in dovecot 2.0.8. 

Read-only for who/what? But anyway, just set up the Maildir directory's
group/permissions the way you want and Dovecot will preserve them for
the newly created files.

> I know you can set
> the umask in the dovecot config but I believe this is a global setting.

This setting hasn't worked for a while, and it's not present at all in
v2.0.

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