Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

(Sorry about messing up threading, but I'm not subscribed and wasn't Cc'd) > > IIRC, it was a problem for the support of shared mailboxes. > > Index files are created whose permissions mimic the mailbox' permissions. > > The 'mail' group ownership would require dovecot to be in the mail group. >

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Nicolas François wrote: When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to move to mode 0600. IIRC, it was a problem for the suppo