Hi,
I read the Wiki about dovecot-shared a few times but it is not 100%
clear to me (at least for 1.2).
First, if I want shared keywords I *must* have a dovecot-shared. In this
case, the permissions are not taken any longer from the parent folder
(what is exactly this parent folder?) but from the dovecot-shared file.
So in some sense dovecot-shared is always required (since everyone would
like to share keywords). True?
Second, is there only *one* dovecot-shared per namespace or per mailbox
*under* a specific namespace? Or an arbitrary number (where the "last"
is taken)? Where does dovecot-shared need to be placed?
For example, if the location of the namespace points to /var/mail/shared
and I have two mailboxes "group1" and "group2" inside.
Does the dovecot-shared need to reside in /var/mail/shared or
/var/mail/shared/group1 and /var/mail/shared/group2 (with LAYOUT=fs)? Is
it possible?
Third (and main) question: In /var/mail/shared I want to have a mailbox
for each group. Each user is member of his respective groups (in terms
of UNIX permissions *and* ACLs).
The mailboxes are owned by their respective groups and if a user creates
a subfolder inside it should surely have the same group assigned as the
parent mailbox (not the namespace!).
namespace public {
separator = .
prefix = Shared.
location = maildir:/var/mail/shared:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared:LAYOUT=fs
subscriptions = no
}
mail:~# ls -l -R /var/mail/shared/
/var/mail/shared/:
total 12
drwxrwx--- 5 root group1 4096 Feb 9 11:53 Group1
drwxrwx--- 5 root group2 4096 Feb 9 12:27 Group2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Feb 9 11:52 dovecot-acl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 15 2009 dovecot-shared
/var/mail/shared/Group1:
total 16
drwxrwx--- 2 root group1 4096 Feb 8 10:35 cur
-rw-r--r-- 1 root group1 28 Feb 9 11:52 dovecot-acl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root group1 0 Dec 15 2009 dovecot-shared
drwxrwx--- 2 root group1 4096 Dec 15 2009 new
drwxrwx--- 2 root group1 4096 Feb 8 10:34 tmp
/var/mail/shared/Group1/cur:
total 0
/var/mail/shared/Group1/new:
total 0
/var/mail/shared/Group1/tmp:
total 0
/var/mail/shared/Group2:
total 16
drwxrwx--- 2 root group2 4096 Feb 8 10:35 cur
-rw-r--r-- 1 root group2 27 Feb 9 11:52 dovecot-acl
-rw-rwS--- 1 root group2 0 Dec 15 2009 dovecot-shared
drwxrwx--- 2 root group2 4096 Dec 15 2009 new
drwxrwx--- 2 root group2 4096 Feb 8 10:34 tmp
/var/mail/shared/Group2/cur:
total 0
/var/mail/shared/Group2/new:
total 0
/var/mail/shared/Group2/tmp:
total 0
Again: *Inside* /var/mail/shared I want to create mailboxes for each
group (Group1, Group2, ...). This is done only by the administrator.
Therefore /var/mail/shared is owned by root.
Each Group1, Group2, ... in turn is owned by group1, group2, ...
I tried all combinations using dovecot-shared which came into my mind
such that a subfolder of Group1 is owned by group1. However, either
1.) the subfolder is owned by the primary group of the creating user
(group "users")
or
2.) the group of /var/mail/shared/dovecot-shared
or
3.) creation of the subfolder fails with
dovecot: IMAP(user1): chown(/var/mail/shared/Group2/Test1, -1, 0(root))
failed: Operation not permitted (egid=100(users), group based on
/var/mail/shared/dovecot-shared)
dovecot: IMAP(user1): mkdir(/var/mail/shared/Group2/Test1/cur) failed:
Operation not permitted
Is this just not possible or do I get something wrong here?
Regards,
Luke
