Martin Hochreiter writes:
Hi Sam,mhmm - thats my opinion too, but what should they be? And additionally,the same setup with courier 4.3 has worked without problems and the same rights ...Maybe you can give me a hint with the rights, i am already a little bit blind in that case:
There's nothing magical about permission ownership and rights. For filesystem-based virtual folders they're your usual file permission rights. The way file permissions work hasn't changed in nearly 40 years.
Each IMAP server process runs under the uid and gid of the corresponding mail account, so you need to arrange file and directory permissions of shared folders and messages in whatever way makes them readable by the IMAP server process.
Courier-IMAP does not impose or force you to use any particular scheme for managing file permissions and ownership. This is entirely up to you, as a mail admin, to come up with a scheme that works in your organization.
Keep in mind that messages copied to the shared folder by each IMAP process will be owned by whatever userid and groupid that the IMAP process runs as, so if they're supposed to be readable by IMAP processes running under a different uid/gid, you'll have to make the necessary arrangements as well; probably by using the same gid and thus making all message files group-readable.
Or, of course, you can always switch to virtual accounts and use virtual shared folders, which are managed by Courier-IMAP itself, using IMAP access control lists.
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