[Dovecot] umask 007 ineffective with newly created Maildir message

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Dec 22 21:50:02 UTC 2006


On 21.12.2006, at 18.35, Ben Winslow wrote:

> I think that probably makes umask irrelevant -- but whether dovecot
> should chmod things when maildir_copy_with_hardlinks is on is a
> separate discussion.

Hmm. I hadn't thought about that problem before. I think in general  
it shouldn't matter, but when using shared folders this is going to  
be problematic. Perhaps hardlink-copying should be disabled whenever  
the file's permissions would change. Anyway, I think this is post- 
v1.0 problem.

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