Postfix/Dovecot permissions for new mailboxes

[Aki Tuomi]

Do you have

mail_location=maildir:~/mail

or

mail_location = maildir:/path/to/whatever/%u

I tested with latest 2.2 that if I use /path/to, I get correct permissions.

Aki


On 15.05.2018 12:43, telsch wrote:
> I would expect same permissions as for root mail directory 02770:
>     drwxrws--- 5 newuser mail 4096 Apr 23 19:31 /var/spool/mail/newuser/
>
> Using Dovecot 2.2.34
>
> On 14.05.2018 08:37, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09.05.2018 12:52, telsch wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> What permissions were you expecting? Also, which version of dovecot are
>> you running?
>>
>> Aki
>>