[Dovecot] moving mail from private inbox to public folder kills the latter

[Jerrale G]

  On 8/11/2010 12:02 PM, Tamas Kadar wrote:
> Also, it's weird that the mail we have since we migrated to dovecot is 
> either 700 or 755, most user's mailboxes are 777, so it shouldn't be 
> 700...
>
> (Yeah, I know, not very secure, however no user has shell access, only 
> by mail)
>
> Best regrds
> Tamas
>
> On 8/11/2010 5:52 PM, Tamas Kadar wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I've ran into something rather nasty: if a user moves a mail from its
>> inbox to a public folder, the folder becomes inaccessible for others,
>> because the moved file will have the the permission 600 instead of 777
>> (or 666) which the rest of the emails have in the folder.
>>
>> How can I change this behavior so when he moves the mail it
>> automatically becomes world-readable? Also why one mail kills the whole
>> folder?
>>
>> Here's the error I get:
>> Error:
>> open(/home/_shared/projects/.Long.Folder/cur/1281535484.M3B5A7P15183Q0.mail_espell_com:2,Sb) 
>>
>> failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(ktamas) egid=1000(ktamas) missing
>> +r perm:
>> /home/_shared/projects/.Long.Folder/cur/1281535484.M3B5A7P15183Q0.mail_espell_com:2,Sb, 
>>
>> euid is not dir owner)
>>
>> Thanks and best regards
>> Tamas
>
make sure you have the namespaces specified for the public folders so 
that the correct permissions will be set.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces

J. G.

J. G.