Postfix/Dovecot permissions for new mailboxes

telsch telsch at gmx.de
Wed May 9 12:52:24 EEST 2018


Hello,

the wiki page describe that permission should copied from root mail 
directory
	https://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions

The permissions for the root mail directory are set to 2770:
	drwxrws--- 36 root mail 4096 Apr 15 02:30 /var/spool/mail/

But newly created mailboxes get following permissions:
	drwx--S--- 5 newuser mail 4096 Apr 23 19:31 /var/spool/mail/newuser/

In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf follow options are set:
	mail_gid = mail
	mail_privileged_group = mail
	mail_access_groups = mail

I'm missing something to get right group permissions for new mailboxes?


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