On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is
caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users
mailbox in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory.
Naturally, this fails when the user is not a member of group mail.
What is the reason for mailboxes to be owned by group mail when in
Debian we have per-user groups and AFAIK no daemons or other system
processes belong to the mail group?
As I understand things, it is so MUAs can lock the mailbox in mbox format.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414264 discusses it
further.
-- Asheesh.
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