On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:41 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 00:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Oh, this is actually harmless. You can get rid of it (and improve the
> > performance) by setting dotlock_use_excl=yes.
> >
> > But maybe I should release v1.0.12 anyway wit
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:41 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 00:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > > > a) Upgrade to v1.0.11 and use the new mail_privileged_group setting
> > > > instead of mail_extra_groups.
> > >
> > > We tried this but now the mail.log has a number o
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 00:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > a) Upgrade to v1.0.11 and use the new mail_privileged_group setting
> > > instead of mail_extra_groups.
> >
> > We tried this but now the mail.log has a number of lines :
> > « dovecot: IMAP(someuser): open(/var/mail/.temp.) failed
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 08:35 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> mail_extra_groups=mail setting is often used insecurely to give Dovecot
> access to create dotlocks to /var/mail directory. If you don't use
> mboxes in /var/mail, make sure this setting is cleared.
>
> If you do use /var/mail mboxes and Do
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:42 +0100, Benoit Branciard wrote:
> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> >>> 2a) mbox: Any files/directories under mail group-writable directories
> >>> can be created/deleted/renamed by symlinking the directory under
> >>> ~/mail/. For example ln -s /var/mail ~/mail/var, DELETE var/r
Timo Sirainen a écrit :
2a) mbox: Any files/directories under mail group-writable directories
can be created/deleted/renamed by symlinking the directory under
~/mail/. For example ln -s /var/mail ~/mail/var, DELETE var/root will
happily delete root's mailbox. This I hadn't thought about before.
On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Benoit Branciard wrote:
Timo Sirainen a écrit :
mail_extra_groups=mail setting is often used insecurely to give
Dovecot
access to create dotlocks to /var/mail directory. If you don't use
mboxes in /var/mail, make sure this setting is cleared.
[...]
2a) mbox: Any f
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And one more thing: v1.0.rc2 will be released in a day or two with this
> change but I'd rather fix a few more bugs before that. If you need it
> already, use the nightly snapshot:
> http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-lates
Timo Sirainen a écrit :
mail_extra_groups=mail setting is often used insecurely to give Dovecot
access to create dotlocks to /var/mail directory. If you don't use
mboxes in /var/mail, make sure this setting is cleared.
[...]
2a) mbox: Any files/directories under mail group-writable directories
ca
And one more thing: v1.0.rc2 will be released in a day or two with this
change but I'd rather fix a few more bugs before that. If you need it
already, use the nightly snapshot:
http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-latest.tar.gz
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Oh, forgot to mention: Thanks to John Rowe for bugging me about this
until I did more than just add some warning comments to
dovecot-example.conf. :)
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mail_extra_groups=mail setting is often used insecurely to give Dovecot
access to create dotlocks to /var/mail directory. If you don't use
mboxes in /var/mail, make sure this setting is cleared.
If you do use /var/mail mboxes and Dovecot gives permission errors
without it, do one of the following
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