dovecot - Dec 2006 - BUG: messages created with permissions not respecting umask

Using dovecot 1.0rc15, together with postfix and dovecot-lda.

umask is set to 0007.  This should ensure directories and files get
created with read/write permissions for both user and group.

However, dovecot-lda writes files with 600 permissions, instead of 660.
So dovecot does not seem to respect the umask configuration property for
local mail delivery.

In my particular case, I have vmail:vmail own the mail directories, and
a backup user part of the vmail group.  However the backup user cannot
read the mails and thus back them up properly.

Suggestions:
- respect the umask for file delivery as well
- alternatively, take the parent directory's permissions, strip
executable bits, and apply to file

Thanks
Thomas

On 19.12.2006, at 11.45, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> umask is set to 0007.  This should ensure directories and files get
> created with read/write permissions for both user and group.
umask setting isn't really working that well, since sometimes files  
are created with 0600 mode, sometimes 0660 and yet sometimes 0666..  
I'll see if I can get this fixed before v1.0.

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