Hi,
I use dovecot-shared to add read permissions to the group in my mail
server, which uses virtual users. This is only to ease backups.
However, a few files are not created with the permissions in
dovecot-shared. I've seen this happen to 'subscriptions',
'maildirfolder' (when dovecot-shared exists; the change to correctly
create maildirfolder in this case is very recent), and possibly
'maildirsize' (I'm not sure about this one, it might be exim that is
creating it with wrong permissions.)
This has been tested in recent snapshot package, from the Debian
repository listed at http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries. Here's
dovecot -n for reference:
# 1.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_path: /var/log/dovecot/main.log
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 1
first_valid_uid: 100
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location:
maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/INBOX:INDEX=/home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecotidx
mail_plugins: quota imap_quota
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login cram-md5
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: username_format=%n /home/vmail/%d/db/passwd
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=104 gid=8 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n
userdb:
driver: passwd
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
mode: 438
plugin:
quota: maildir
