[Dovecot] managesieve does call a wrong chown

[Stephan Bosch]

Wolfgang.Friebel at desy.de wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Wolfgang.Friebel at desy.de wrote:
> 

> This piece of code is (if I understand it correctly) trying to set the 
> group permissions according to the parent directory (assuming that the 
> sieve storage is somewhere in the users home dir).
>
Right.

> I did however choose to have a different dir layout, the sieve storage 
> is under /var/spool/sieve/ which has permissions 1777 and is owned by 
> root:root. Therefore the chown(dir, -1, 0) call is failing, as the 
> parent dir does not belong to the group of the user but to root.
> 
Ok.

> As the directory structure is nevertheless created (with the correct 
> permissions), the next use of managesieve does no longer complain about 
> wrong permissions and managesieve is correctly working.
> 
> Should I change my choice of sieve_dir as suggested in the wiki:
> 
> # Directory for :personal include scripts. The default is to use home 
> directory.
> sieve_dir = %h/sieve
> 
> or is my setting a correct alternative?
> 
I try to provide administrators like you with much flexibility, and I 
don't see why this kind of directory structure should be discouraged. 
Timo, any ideas? I guess I can implement a check to handles this 
situation gracefully.

Regards,

Stephan.