Re: [Dovecot] Segfault when opening a public folder, dovecot 1.1 beta4

[Timo Sirainen]

On 27.10.2007, at 21.51, Adam McDougall wrote:

  But the real problem is that dovecot-shared file is owned by a group

  mail_extra_groups.


allows, then they cannot login at all.

that your imap process doesn't belong to. You probably want to add it to I want to avoid adding a group to any user that logs in because some of them are in many groups already and it might push them over the limit that FreeBSD

userdb passwd {
  args = system_user=
}

If you don't need the other groups in Dovecot you can get rid of them and just have the process use the user's primary group and mail_extra_groups. I think this should work:

With some recent permission changes I've

in my setup.

done (affects dovecot 1.0 as well), I get a good amount of these fchown errors and I was thinking of muting them so they do not fill my log, since they are harmless

If these errors happen for index files Dovecot currently fallbacks to using in-memory indexes.

Right now in my public folder permission scheme, the only thing I need

I don't care what mode or group they are.

dovecot-shared for (I think) is making client-added emails world- readable at least (currently actually mode 666). As long as the indexes are accessible by the user,

How about this: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/0dd9b91fd52c

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