[Dovecot] some Maildir files not honoring dovecot-shared

[Steve James]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 06:54, Glenn Leavell wrote:
> I don't know if the following is related to the above, but I thought I'd
> include it here just in case.  After setting umask = 0007 in dovecot.conf,
> dovecot-uidlist, dovecot.index, and dovecot.index.log are not created with
> the new mask; however, the maildir parent directory, cur, new, tmp, and the
> maildirfolder file *are* created with the new mask:
>
> $ ls -l
> total 12
> drwxrwx---   2 glenn    adm          512 Jan 10 01:37 cur/
> -rw-------   1 glenn    adm           44 Jan 10 01:37 dovecot-uidlist
> -rw-------   1 glenn    adm          120 Jan 10 01:37 dovecot.index
> -rw-------   1 glenn    adm           24 Jan 10 01:37 dovecot.index.log
> -rw-rw----   1 glenn    adm            0 Jan 10 01:37 maildirfolder
> drwxrwx---   2 glenn    adm          512 Jan 10 01:37 new/
> drwxrwx---   2 glenn    adm          512 Jan 10 01:37 tmp/
>
> I'm experimenting with using the umask setting for shared folders.  In the
> case of sharing, won't the index files, etc. need to be readable by the
> sharing group as well?

I concur: the umask is not honoured when Dovecot creates a new Maildir file. 
This has been the case at least as far back as v0.99.14.

Doesn't this completely defeat use of shared folders? For me this bug is a 
problem because I want to process Maildirs with a cron process running as uid 
mail, but group write permission is not set on created message files.

Steve.

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