[Dovecot] Permission problems

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 2/29/2012 8:53 PM, David Renstrom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've set up a Postfix and Dovecot (only IMAP) combination using MySQL and
> Postfixadmin on Fedora. Almost everything works correctly now. The only
> thing bugging me right now is that I always have to change the access
> privileges of the directories in /var/run/dovecot/ manually to 777 to make
> it work. As you understand, I'm not particularly happy about this as it
> doesn't feel secure at all. And I also have to do this every time I reboot
> since Dovecot resets the old access priviliges (600).

> As you see I've got a vmail user who belongs to the mail group. Almost all
> directories under /var/run/dovecot belong to user root and group root. They
> all have the permissions rw--------.

Is this a Fedora Dovecot RPM, or did you use source?  Do you have
selinux/apparmor enabled?  Do you like shellfish?


-- 
Stan