Postfix/Dovecot permissions for new mailboxes

[Aki Tuomi]

I have to correct myself. I tested with sdbox now too, and it seems that
using

mail_location=sdbox:~/Mail

produces the expected behaviour. mdbox uses same code as sdbox for this,
so it should work fine.

Aki


On 15.05.2018 13:01, telsch wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>