[Dovecot] LMTP auth problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On 14.4.2012, at 20.21, Cor Bosman wrote:

> My config was the same as yours. That didnt work for me. But if I add
> 
>  user = dovecot 
>  mode = 0666

Hmm. Perhaps I should make this the default.

> That does work. Of course, the difference between 777 and 666 is
> minimal. I think 666 is handled as a special case in the code?

Yes, it's handled specially. 0666 is now a safe default for multi-user systems, since it returns data for a user only if the calling process's UID matches the returned "uid". 0777 makes it truly world-accessible.