Permissions for shared mail don't work

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Fri Oct 17 06:26:10 UTC 2014


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On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Damien Desfontaines wrote:

> I'm trying to make the mailbox of (system) user "spam" available to
> user "ted". I followed these instructions:
>    http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions
> and it doesn't seem to work. To be more precise:
> - I manually (and recursively) changed the permissions of all
>  files in ~spam/Mail to 660 (and 770 for the directories);
> - I manually (and recursively) changed the group owner of everything
>  in ~spam/Mail to "mailperso", where "mailperso" is a group whose
>  users are spam and ted;
> - I added « mail_access_groups=mailperso » into my dovecot config;
> - and I restarted dovecot.
>
> But still, when I send a new email to spam, it appears as being owned
> by group "spam" and having permissions set to 600, so I can't access
> it with user "ted". I also tried to set the setgid bit for ~spam/Mail,
> it didn't change anything, and when I recursively set the setgid for
> all subdirectories of ~spam/Mail, it gives new mails the correct group
> (mailperso) but not the correct permissions.

Please post (here in the list)

ls -al ~spam/Mail ~spam/Mail/{new,cur}

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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