Hi, i've installed dovecot on a new mailserverand try to set up some shared mailboxes. I have everiting up an runnig so far. I have 3 mboxes to be shared. I have use the following setup namespace private { separator prefix location inbox = yes hidden = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = zentrale/ location = mbox:/var/mail/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/shared/.control:INDEX=/var/mail/shared/.index } the problem is with the dovecot.index files [root at mailserv /var/mail/shared/.index]# ls -alR total 6 drwxrwx--- 3 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 . drwxrwx--- 4 mailnull vhsal 512 May 7 13:52 .. drwxrwx--- 5 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 .imap -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:49 dovecot-shared ./.imap: total 10 drwxrwx--- 5 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 . drwxrwx--- 3 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 .. drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:50 Eingang drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 Erledigt drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:50 Spam -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:49 dovecot-shared ./.imap/Eingang: total 38 drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:50 . drwxrwx--- 5 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 .. -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:50 dovecot-shared -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 896 May 7 13:51 dovecot.index -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 23552 May 7 13:51 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 6824 May 7 13:51 dovecot.index.log ./.imap/Erledigt: total 30 drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 . drwxrwx--- 5 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 .. -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:49 dovecot-shared -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 456 May 7 13:52 dovecot.index -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 20480 May 7 13:45 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 3364 May 7 13:52 dovecot.index.log ./.imap/Spam: total 26 drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:50 . drwxrwx--- 5 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 .. -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:50 dovecot-shared -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 240 May 7 13:51 dovecot.index -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 17408 May 7 13:45 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 648 May 7 13:51 dovecot.index.log When the directory is setup like this everthing works as planed. But sometimes (havn't quite figured when exactly the dovecot.index file of one of the Mailboxes is regenated with the false permissions set ./.imap/Eingang: total 38 drwxrwx--- 2 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:53 . drwxrwx--- 5 dovecot vhsal 512 May 7 13:49 .. -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:50 dovecot-shared -rw------- 1 estartu vhsal 376 May 7 13:53 dovecot.index -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 23552 May 7 13:53 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 7116 May 7 13:53 dovecot.index.log How can I gate dovecot to set the permissions of this files to rw-rw---- I am using Dovecot v1.0.rc29 Regards Gerhard Schmidt -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Schmidt | Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 | | PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | EMail: estartu at augusta.de | on request Germany | | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 305 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070507/82436329/attachment.bin>
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:11 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:> location = mbox:/var/mail/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/shared/.control:INDEX=/var/mail/shared/.indexmbox has no CONTROL directory.> -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 0 May 7 13:50 dovecot-shared > -rw------- 1 estartu vhsal 376 May 7 13:53 dovecot.index > -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 23552 May 7 13:53 dovecot.index.cache > -rw-rw---- 1 dovecot vhsal 7116 May 7 13:53 dovecot.index.log > > How can I gate dovecot to set the permissions of this files to rw-rw----mbox doesn't support dovecot-shared file either. So unfortunately this won't work. Also if you used maildir, the dovecot-shared would have to be in the maildir directory, not in the index directory. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070511/b82b05a0/attachment.bin>