[Dovecot] Shared folder doesn't work!

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 18 19:36:07 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:40:14PM -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> > Brian Lavender wrote:
> > >I can't seem to get a shared folder working properly. I am authenticating
> > >using pam, and the users have a shell account on the system. Problem is,
> > >the permissions on the messages moved into the folder don't maintain
> > >properly, and other users can't read the share.
> > 
> > Did you make a dovecot-shared file?
> > 
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders
> > 
> 
> No, I didn't create that file. Do I just touch the file and change it to
> the colab group? The users accessing this folder are in the colab group.
> 
> # cd /var/mail/public/.notices
> # touch dovecot-shared
> # chgrp colab dovecot-shared

Also make sure that the file mode is correct (g+rw).

However, the group isn't actually used in rc17. I just fixed it today.
So either wait for the next release, or get the latest nightly snapshot
where this is fixed.

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