Postfix/Dovecot permissions for new mailboxes
telsch
telsch at gmx.de
Tue May 15 13:01:22 EEST 2018
I use mdbox not maildir:
mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%u
On 15.05.2018 11:53, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 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
>>>
>
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