On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 15:42 +0100, Jeremie Bouttier wrote: > For people using mostly remote MUAs, it might be interesting to use > Dovecot's LDA. I read on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA that this is > possible using .forward files, however this fails on our system with : > file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: Permission denied > (/var/mail is 2775 for root:mail as recently discussed). > > Is there a possible fix ? I also read that deliver is not designed to be > run setuid root, I guess this also applies to being run setgid mail...
You could set it setgid mail, but that probably allows your users to write to any files/dirs writable by mail group with some symlinks. How about just setting /var/mail 01777?
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