[Dovecot] change initial permissions on creation of mail folder

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Fri Jan 6 18:37:22 EET 2012


Installed dovcot from Debian .deb file. Creating a new account for 
system users sets permission for user-only. Where to change initial 
permissions on creation of mail folder and other subdirectories.

Installed dovecot using "apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d". 
Any time when I create a new account in my mail client for a system 
user, Dovecot tries to create ~/mail/.imap/INBOX. The permissions for 
mail and .imap are set to 0700. By this permissions INBOX can not be 
created leading to an error message in log files. When I manualy change 
the permissions to 0770, INBOX is created



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