Re: [Dovecot] maildir location

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:41 -0500, upen wrote:

#ls -ald /localdir drwxrwxrwx 31 root root 12288 Mar 17 10:48 /localdir/

# ls -ald /localdir/mail drwxrwxrwx 3 dovecot dovecot 4096 Mar 17 10:49 /localdir/mail

mkdir /localdir/mail/username chown username:group /localdir/mail/username chmod 700 /localdir/mail/username

Do you think it is okay to keep these perms ?

At least you should do chmod +t /localdir /localdir/mail.

Or just keep them 0755 and create /localdir/mail/username with proper permissions immediately for new users.