[Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.8.2010, at 22.04, Ralph Seichter wrote:

> On 24.08.10 20:18, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> 
>> service dict {
>>  unix_listener dict {
>>    # Ensure that there is no permission-related problem
>>    mode = 0666
>>  }
>> }
> 
> I forgot to ask: what mode setting would you suggest in the scenario I
> described? Would it be sufficient if only the user "dovecot" had write
> permissions to the dict socket, or does every mail user need to be able
> to write to the socket when using his/her IMAP client to move or delete
> messages?

Mail processes connect to dict socket, so all mail users executing mail processes need to have access to it. Or you could use mail_access_groups as described by http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Dict