On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Stephen Carville wrote:
Do you have dovecot-shared file in the .Incoming/ directory? Dovecot tries to use that file's group. If you don't want it to do that, you can chmod g+s dovecot-shared and it's not preserved.
I have dovecot-shared in the directory. The part that kept throwing me was that the user was a member if the group (cs). I finally discovered that adding a user to the group must be accompanied by adding userdb_system_user=username to the imap.passwd file.
Yes, if all your users are also system users. Another possibility would have been to set userdb_mail_access_groups=groupname. Or just change the primary gid to that group.
I considered that but I cannot be sure that there will just be one group. I am trying to recreate a public folder structure that is being used fro work flow management and is implemented using Exchange. Right now every user in the company has read/write access to every public folder and I was told to change that on the IMAP server so there may be two or three different groups. To be honest I am not very optimistic about the prognosis since I have to use Outlook as the IMAP client.
No matter, that -- Even if the project here flops I know enough now that I can migrate other clients from courier to dovecot when the time comes. That alone made the time worth it.
-- Stephen Carville