Postfix/Dovecot permissions for new mailboxes

[Aki Tuomi]

On 09.05.2018 12:52, telsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the wiki page describe that permission should copied from root mail
> directory
>     https://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions
>
> The permissions for the root mail directory are set to 2770:
>     drwxrws--- 36 root mail 4096 Apr 15 02:30 /var/spool/mail/
>
> But newly created mailboxes get following permissions:
>     drwx--S--- 5 newuser mail 4096 Apr 23 19:31 /var/spool/mail/newuser/
>
> In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf follow options are set:
>     mail_gid = mail
>     mail_privileged_group = mail
>     mail_access_groups = mail
>
> I'm missing something to get right group permissions for new mailboxes?

What permissions were you expecting? Also, which version of dovecot are
you running?

Aki