Mark Nienberg wrote:
I'm testing dovecot as a replacement for an aging UW-IMAP server. I have the basic IMAP setup working but I'm stuck on public folders (which my users are addicted to). I set up public folders generally a described in the wiki. The problem is that when a user creates a new public folder, the folder is owned by the user with permissions drwx------ which prevents other users from viewing the contents.
Further testing shows that "umask = 0007" can be used to fix this. I'm surprised that it is a global setting. I would have thought that you would want a different umask for private and public mailboxes. This makes the messages in a user's home directories readable and writeable by members of the group. But I guess they don't really have access to the directory in the first place. Or am I doing something wrong here?
Mark