On 18.1.2007, at 23.47, Glenn Leavell wrote:
I now think dovecot-shared completely meets my needs for shared
folders (especially with your recent group fix; thanks!), but I reported the behavior above because I wasn't sure if the umask setting was doing
what you intended it to do. What's its purpose? In a Maildir
environment, it seems to control the permissions of a Maildir directory structure,
but not the dovecot-specific files. Is that right?
It doesn't really have any thought out purpose. Probably the whole
setting shouldn't even exist. :) I guess I should mark it that way in
dovecot.conf, or even remove it completely..
I did have some vague ideas that it should control the permissions of
all the files created by imap/pop3 processes. But that's not how it
currently works. Maybe some day in future.