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

[Tamas Kadar]

On 8/11/2010 6:45 PM, Jerrale G wrote:
> 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.
>

I think I set it right, here are my namespaces:

# User's mailbox
namespace {
   inbox = yes
   location =
   prefix =
   separator = .
   type = private
}

# The public namespace
namespace {
   location = maildir:/home/_shared/projects:INDEX=~/Maildir/_shared
   prefix = shared.
   separator = .
   subscriptions = no
   type = public
}