dovecot - Dec 2009 - dovecot-shared Problem

Hi,

first, sorry for my english, i hope u understand me :-/

I try to set up dovecot with imap and maildir. I run into a permission
problem.
I need to have read and execute rights of all folders and mails for the
group (needed by the backup deamon).

first I tried with umask, but this only affect folders and no mails. Then I
read about dovecot-shared and tried this. Permissions are now ok but and
this is a big but., I have troubles with thunderbird.

I copied a folder from an pop3 account to the imap account
(Inbox->subfolder). Now all mails are unread. OK i mark all as read. Now I
move a message to the inbox and back to the subfolder an wonder, the mail is
now marked as unreaded again.

When i set up the mailboxes without the dovecot-shared file, the behaviour
above is gone!! But my permission problem is back :-(

Permissions of dovecot-shared is 750 and the mainfolder is 750 with g+s

can anybody help me?

thank u alot

grz.
fr3ak4l

On December 2, 2009 4:25:35 PM +0100 Darius Bohni <d.bohni at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I need to have read and execute rights of all folders and mails for the
> group (needed by the backup deamon).
I don't understand how a backup daemon could work if it isn't run as
root.

-frank

On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Darius Bohni wrote:
> I try to set up dovecot with imap and maildir. I run into a permission
> problem.
> I need to have read and execute rights of all folders and mails for the
> group (needed by the backup deamon).
Easiest solution: Upgrade to Dovecot v1.2 and just set up the directories'
permissions the way you want them. Dovecot will use those permissions for all
files it creates.