Maildir permissions on creation?

[Von Random]

The main reason is that I don't want to provide backup user with unnecessary write permissions within maildirs and mail user within backup logs dir. I was talking about mail_user:mail_group 0750 on dirs and 0640 on files. (Or, possibly, mail_user:backup_group 2750 and 2640.)

26.12.2014, 11:19, "Tobi" <tobster at brain-force.ch>:
> Whats the reason you do not want to use default dovecot user. Your idea would assume that at least the group must have write access. For me a no-go on mailboxes.
>
> Am 24. Dezember 2014 13:21:15 MEZ, schrieb Von Random <von at vdrandom.org>:
>> Hello.
>>
>> In my configuration dovecot reads home from mysql and uses no variables
>> within it. It uses Maildir++ storage with virtual users. I also happen
>> to use LMTP.
>>
>> I want to use a backup solution that does not involve running itself as
>> root. Neither do I want to run it as dovecot's mail user.
>>
>> And there lies the problem: dovecot creates maildirs with 0700 and
>> files within them inherit that set of permissions. And there seems to
>> be no sane way to control it. I think I've figured out what to patch in
>> order to change that default, but if possible, I'd like to avoid doing
>> that.
>>
>> tl;dr: is it possible to change the default set of permissions for new
>> maildirs created by dovecot?
>
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