I recently upgraded from DC 1.1.15 to 1.2.6. The /var/dcindx index root directory is:

drwxrwsrwt 3962 root sys 192512 Nov 13 11:56 ./

thus 3777.

It appears that the user index directories created under DC1.1 look like this (here for /var/dcindx/cep):

drwx--S--- 5 cep sys 256 Nov 13 14:26 cep/

while those created under V1.2 look like:

drwx------ 3 lrenart sys 256 Nov 12 14:59 lrenart/

It seems that the first time that DC goes to do indexing, I now see this error msg:

Nov 12 11:45:15 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(bpyi): open(/var/spool/mail/bpyi) failed: Permission denied (euid=2586(bpyi) egid=2000(bard2) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail)

...but never again...

Questions:

1. Are the ownership and permissions on the /var/dcindx index root directory ideal or should they be something else?
2. Ideally what should the ownership and permissions be for individual user subdirs? I create the user mail directories when creating a new account, so it would be little extra trouble to create and set the ownership and permissions.

I am currently using mbox mailbox format but will be migrating to maildir over the next some months. Dovecot -n

1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf

OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00

listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1280 mail_max_userip_connections: 12 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@example.com auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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