[Dovecot] permissions for dbox attachment directory

imap at tnde.org imap at tnde.org
Sun Jun 26 22:56:41 EEST 2011


> Please post the exact error message, and the output of dovecot -n
>
> This way it is much easier for people to help you, and it takes less
> guessing what is going on.

Sorry, here's the full details.

Maillog says

Jun 25 19:10:55 test1 dovecot: imap(tu2): Error:
stat(/var/mail/attachments/04/f6/.temp.test1.vmlan.local.1522.2cde9668dcad3fd5)
failed: Permission denied
Jun 25 19:10:55 test1 dovecot: imap(tu2): Error:
safe_mkstemp(/var/mail/attachments/04/f6/.temp.test1.vmlan.local.1522.)
failed: Permission denied

This is when attempting to export the same mail to two accounts. As the
first user "tu1" get to own the attachment dirs, the second user "tu2" is
denied permission.

Eg:
drwx------ 3 tu1 tu1 4096 Jun 25 19:10 f6



# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
auth_debug = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments
mail_attachment_min_size = 1 k
mail_location = sdbox:~/dbox
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}




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