similar to: /var/mail/<user> and mail group privileges

I've been using dovecot+postfix happily for many years, and I'm now configuring it for a new machine. However, I'm running into an old problem again, and thinking that there must be a better solution. The problem is that dovecot-lda is unable to create dotlock files in the /var/mail directory. Dovecot version: 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u1 (I'm guessing this is upstream version 2.2.13) OS:

clements at desmond:/var/log$ ls -lda /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 2 22:07 /var/mail Best, John Clements On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx at gmail.com> wrote: > what is the full permissions of /var/mail? > > > ls -lda /var/mail > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:49 PM, John Clements <johnbclements at gmail.com> > wrote: >

Le 19/06/2015 09:04, Steffen Kaiser a ?crit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Mickael Choisnard wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:29:08 +0200 >> From: Mickael Choisnard <mickael.choisnard at free.fr> >> To: dovecot at dovecot.org >> Subject: [Dovecot] question about /var/mail/xxx >> >> Hi,

"Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead" I use the following: mail_extra_groups = mail nogroup Because I have the real and virtual accounts. What's the correct way to replace the above line? It seems that mail_privileged_group only accepts one group, but I need two. Any

I have just upgraded to dovecot 1.0.13. All the documentation I can find in the example .conf file and the NEWS and ChangeLog files seems to say that the mail_privileged_group = mail setting is all I should need to make dovecot use group mail to create dotlock files. My understanding from what I read is that mail_privileged_group is used to set the group used while creating dotlock files in (in

With this settings I don't get the expectet result, still get wrong permissions on new mailboxes. Aki did you also try with %u ? > In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf follow options are set: > mail_gid = mail > mail_privileged_group = mail > mail_access_groups = mail > mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%u On 15.05.2018 13:06, Aki Tuomi

I use mdbox not maildir: mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%u On 15.05.2018 11:53, Aki Tuomi wrote: > Do you have > > mail_location=maildir:~/mail > > or > > mail_location = maildir:/path/to/whatever/%u > > I tested with latest 2.2 that if I use /path/to, I get correct permissions. > > Aki > > > On 15.05.2018 12:43, telsch wrote: >> I

and, are you SURE that dovecot-lda has mail in it's group list when it is executing? On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx at gmail.com> wrote: > Hrm. if you turn up the debug on lda, do you get any more of a clue? > > Those permissions look fine to me. > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:10 PM, John Clements <johnbclements at gmail.com> >

Hello, the wiki page describe that permission should copied from root mail directory https://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions The permissions for the root mail directory are set to 2770: drwxrws--- 36 root mail 4096 Apr 15 02:30 /var/spool/mail/ But newly created mailboxes get following permissions: drwx--S--- 5 newuser mail 4096 Apr 23 19:31 /var/spool/mail/newuser/ In

Yes, this settings work as i expected, but i didn't found documentation for mail_home= Thanks On 15.05.2018 20:10, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > Well, that's not what I asked you to try... > > try > > mail_home=/var/spool/mail/%u > mail_location=mdbox:~/ > > Aki > >> On 15 May 2018 at 20:03 telsch <telsch at gmx.de> wrote: >> >> >>

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc2.tar.gz.sig Changes since rc1: * mail_extra_groups setting was commonly used insecurely. This setting is now deprecated. Most users should switch to using mail_privileged_group setting, but if you really need the old functionality use mail_access_groups instead. + Expire plugin

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc2.tar.gz.sig Changes since rc1: * mail_extra_groups setting was commonly used insecurely. This setting is now deprecated. Most users should switch to using mail_privileged_group setting, but if you really need the old functionality use mail_access_groups instead. + Expire plugin

I would expect same permissions as for root mail directory 02770: drwxrws--- 5 newuser mail 4096 Apr 23 19:31 /var/spool/mail/newuser/ Using Dovecot 2.2.34 On 14.05.2018 08:37, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > On 09.05.2018 12:52, telsch wrote: >> Hello, >> >> the wiki page describe that permission should copied from root mail >> directory >>

I have dovecot version 2.0.9 I am confused about this article http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm my mail_location = mbox:~/mymail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u So my inbox is at var/mail/ and my imap folder is /home/user/mymail The problem is /var/mail (Owner is useraccount and the group us mail) , and here comes the problem Dovecot keeps trying to chown the imap folder inside the

Hi, I do hope this hasn't been covered. I googled and looked in the archives but didn't see anything related, so hopefully I am not covering old ground. I recently upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.1rc5. I am seeing this error from clients: May 25 11:01:54 finity dovecot: Panic: IMAP(xxx at here.org): file mailbox-tree.c: line 171 (mailbox_tree_iterate_set_next_node): assertion failed:

Hi: I get the occasional error below. Is there something I don't have configured correctly? Or should I just ignore this? It is not always this file, sometimes it is the cache.lock file or the log.newlock file. I have a mail client running on my computer and my phone at the same time, could that have something to do with it? Nov 10 08:32:59 rabbitbrush dovecot: IMAP(bob):

Nov 3 12:23:05 desmond dovecot: lda(granitemon): Debug: Effective uid=1003, gid=1003, home=/home/granitemon Nov 3 12:23:05 desmond dovecot: lda(granitemon): Error: setegid(privileged) failed: Operation not permitted so it's running as the normal user, and NOT with the mail group. I'm using exim with LMTP. LMTP is NOT a bad thing, and might make your life easier. It does allow you

Hello, I am new to the list. /Waving at everyone/ I got a basic SpamAssassin working on a Debian setup (w/ debian-spamd user), running as a Postfix transport. I am currently trying to switch it to a dovecot plugin in order to make it interactively work with the email storage (react to mail classification, being able to train it from already received emails, aso.) My problem is now making it

Hi, there! Well, I am new to dovecot, so please be patient with me: I have a virtual server and want to setup simple mail delivery. postfix, saslauthd and dovecot basically work fine. The only open issue is, that (I guess) dovecot doesn't remove the mail when it's retrieved via pop3 from the server. It keeps sending me the same emails again and again. (The mail client (Thunderbird) is

I am using dovecot in mbox format. I'm going to set to leave the 30-day mail to the server with the mail client. The other day, some of email was received duplicate When receive mail. Mail does not arrive between Nov 4 11:09:03 and Nov 4 11:13:25. There should be the 259 (274-15) messages at the time of Nov 4 11:09:03 on the server from the log. But there were the 280 messages at the time of