Yves Goergen wrote:
To be honest, I can't follow you. I see that I have inconsistent
permissions (but all the same owner and group). I did use a different
mail server software in the past, but that's long ago and I can't even
remember when I switched to Dovecot. I think it was Courier-IMAP before.
Maildirs for new mailboxes are still created by one of my own scripts so
maybe that script creates the maildirs with some wrong permissions. I'll
first have to look up what all those funny letters actually mean.
They're too rare to remember.
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hopefully quick explanation of letters
+-d=directory
| usr(me) (r=read,w=write,x=cross(ing)...allows
seeing things below this directory
but 'r' controls seeing things *in*
this directory)
| ||| group
| ||| ||| everyone else
My base permissions were : d rwx rwx r-x
most were: : d rwx rws r-x The 's' on the group-triplet means
set-group on files+dirs below this
The exact permissions aren't so important other than to know that
1) when it creates an internal directory (like .imap/whatever), those
it followed the permissions on my original mbox.
2) when it creats an internal mbox (like INBOX, Trash, Sent...etc) it may
use whatever it's own umask allows. Umasks are often set to system
defaults
like 022 or 002 on 'friendly systems -- they *remove* a bit from a
permission set on a file. Those perms are in octal (0-7), with octal
you need
3 bits 0111 = 1*4 + 1*2 + 1*1 -- the high bit (multiplied by highest
amount, in this case 4, corresponds to the read permission, the 2
corresponds to write permission and the 1 corresponds to execute on
files files, or cross-through
for directories. So a umask of 022 would filter out the 2nd bit in each
permission mask (i.e. the write bit for groups (the middle number) and
the write
bit for 'other' (the 3rd group) Since I allow groups to write, I have
002 so
people in the same group can write.
Windows will use something like 077 on your home directory -- only the
user has any access, by default. the 7's mask out access for any
created files.
If the process that runs dovecot runs with a umask different from you,
by default it might create differently permissioned files. If you
create a directory manually, that also might be different from what you
normally see.
In your case 'Trash' had different permissions -- a directory or
file that would have been created by dovecot. so it may be running with
different default
permissions (settable via the usmask), than you.
Hope that helps some rather than confuses more...was a quick summary
of stuff.
