[Dovecot] delivering mail to public mbox with permission 660?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Oct 21 19:06:05 EEST 2010


On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:30 -0700, RParr wrote:

> I am running Ubuntu 10.04 packages postfix 2.7.0-1, dovecot-common, 
> dovecot-imapd, dovecot-pop3d, and dovecot-postfix (all version 
> 1.2.9-1ubuntu6.1).
..
> My understanding, from the Dovecot wiki and other docs/postings is that 
> the folders should be 660 given the /var/mail permssions of rwxrwsrwt 
> and ~/mail permssions of rwxrws---

Yep. Looks like it's broken in v1.2 for mbox. It works in v2.0 though. I
could maybe write a patch for v1.2, but you'd need to compile Dovecot
anyway.



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