[Dovecot] File permissions used for automatically created mailbox
Hi,
I'm running Dovecot 2.1.12 on FreeBSD (quite successfully so, thanks for this nice piece of software!). One thing which is slightly annoying though is that automatically created mailboxes (I have lda_mailbox_autocreate set) don't have the file permissions I'd like them to have.
I'm using a vmail-based system, i.e. all mail is owned by vmail:vmail; another member of the vmail group is called 'backup', which has read access to all mail in order to create backups. All mail is stored beneath /home/vmail, e.g. /home/vmail/frerich/Maildir
Right now, newly created mailbox directories (e.g. /home/vmail/bob) have 0700 permissions, but I'd like to have 0750 for all directories and 0640 for all files so that all files and directories are group-readable for backup purposes.
Does anybody know whether this is configurable somehow?
Right now, my workaround consists running this cron script every night:
#!/bin/sh chown -R vmail:vmail /home/vmail/ find /home/vmail/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0750 find /home/vmail/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0640
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Frerich Raabe wrote:
I'm running Dovecot 2.1.12 on FreeBSD (quite successfully so, thanks for this nice piece of software!). One thing which is slightly annoying though is that automatically created mailboxes (I have lda_mailbox_autocreate set) don't have the file permissions I'd like them to have.
Right now, newly created mailbox directories (e.g. /home/vmail/bob) have 0700 permissions, but I'd like to have 0750 for all directories and 0640 for all files so that all files and directories are group-readable for backup purposes.
Does anybody know whether this is configurable somehow?
As far as I know and in my 2.1.14 it is like that:
the .XYZ directory inherits its permission to any new .XYZ.ABC mailbox (second level and down).
the Maildir/ directory inherits its permission to any new .XYZ mailbox (top level).
Files get the permission of the directory minus "x".
This is true for "CREATE" command and Dovecot deliver.
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Steffen Kaiser