[Dovecot] /var/mail/<user> and mail group privileges

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 00:47:16 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 3.1.2011, at 19.15, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > Shouldn't mkdir and chown make together a transaction? When it fails just
> > for first time, it confuses some admins (this is the reason why I'm
> > getting complains (bug reports) just because missing/wrong
> > configuration). I think it a) should work even for first connection
> > (ignore chown failure) or b)it should not work for following connection,
> > so the behavior should be more consistent.
> 
> Sounds reasonable, yes. (Not such which one, a or b.) I should probably do
> something about it, but it's still about how to handle an error condition,
> so not a hugely important thing.

I think a) is better for lazy admins, but b) is more correct, because other 
way it's (a little bit) harder to find out this error - having wrong 
permissions in situations when group is really required.