On 17.06.2011 18:35, wrote Dominic Marks:
Hi Dominic,
Initially, /var/dovecot consists of acl, index and mail, all empty. The permissions on these are:
ls -l total 6 drwxrwxr-x 2 hmgp hmgp 512 17 Jun 12:23 acl drwxrwxr-x 3 hmgp hmgp 512 17 Jun 15:56 index drwxrwxr-x 3 hmgp hmgp 512 17 Jun 15:56 mail
If I perform a mail delivery to my mailbox, the mailbox parent directory is created with the following permissions:
ls -l total 2 drwx------ 3 dm hmgp 512 17 Jun 15:56 insidetrading.co.uk
Blind guess: You are delivering the mail via postfix local and not via dovecot-lda or lmtp?
Note that the user ID is my own and the mode restricts all other access. When I perform a second delivery to different mailbox under that domain, one mapped to a different UID, the delivery fails because that user cannot access the parent folder in order to create the new maildir.