On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:06 +1100, Robert S wrote:
> If I create a new folder using a mail client (eg. kmail/OE), the
> maildirfolder file is created world-writable.  I assume that this is a
> security risk and should be -rw-------.

Yes, it shouldn't be world-writable, fixed:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/22c279ca3bb4

Anyway there isn't really much danger with how it was previously,
because:

1) The directory was created with 0700 permissions, so no-one could
write to the file.

2) Even if someone was able to write to the file, the worst that could
happen is that the owner's disk quota was reduced. The maildirfolder
file is never read by Dovecot.

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