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On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Adrian Zaugg wrote:
Somehow I don't understand the intended work flow to have new mailboxes auto created. On login of a new user with no mailbox, I get
2014-01-09 12:53:06 imap(tester): Error: user tester: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/mail/tester) failed: Permission denied (euid=1016(tester) egid=1016(tester) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0771)
The errors says all.
- See:
Group to enable temporarily for privileged operations. Currently this is
# used only with INBOX when either its initial creation or dotlocking fails. # Typically this is set to "mail" to give access to /var/mail. #mail_privileged_group =
# Grant access to these supplementary groups for mail processes. Typically # these are used to set up access to shared mailboxes. Note that it may be # dangerous to set these if users can create symlinks (e.g. if "mail" group is # set here, ln -s /var/mail ~/mail/var could allow a user to delete others' # mailboxes, or ln -s /secret/shared/box ~/mail/mybox would allow reading it). #mail_access_groups =
chmod 1777 /var/mail
pre-create your user dirs
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