[Dovecot] File permissions used for automatically created mailbox

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Frerich Raabe wrote:

> I'm running Dovecot 2.1.12 on FreeBSD (quite successfully so, thanks for this 
> nice piece of software!). One thing which is slightly annoying though is that 
> automatically created mailboxes (I have lda_mailbox_autocreate set) don't 
> have the file permissions I'd like them to have.
>
> Right now, newly created mailbox directories (e.g. /home/vmail/bob) have 0700 
> permissions, but I'd like to have 0750 for all directories and 0640 for all 
> files so that all files and directories are group-readable for backup 
> purposes.
>
> Does anybody know whether this is configurable somehow?

As far as I know and in my 2.1.14 it is like that:

+ the .XYZ directory inherits its permission to any new .XYZ.ABC mailbox 
(second level and down).

+ the Maildir/ directory inherits its permission to any new .XYZ mailbox 
(top level).

+ Files get the permission of the directory minus "x".

This is true for "CREATE" command and Dovecot deliver.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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