Postfix/Dovecot permissions for new mailboxes
telsch
telsch at gmx.de
Wed May 16 13:42:00 EEST 2018
Yes, this settings work as i expected, but i didn't found documentation for
mail_home=
Thanks
On 15.05.2018 20:10, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>
> Well, that's not what I asked you to try...
>
> try
>
> mail_home=/var/spool/mail/%u
> mail_location=mdbox:~/
>
> Aki
>
>> On 15 May 2018 at 20:03 telsch <telsch at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> With this settings I don't get the expectet result, still get wrong
>> permissions on new mailboxes. Aki did you also try with %u ?
>>
>> > In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf follow options are set:
>> > mail_gid = mail
>> > mail_privileged_group = mail
>> > mail_access_groups = mail
>> > mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%u
>>
>> On 15.05.2018 13:06, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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