I recently upgraded from DC 1.1.15 to 1.2.6. The /var/dcindx index root
directory is:
drwxrwsrwt 3962 root sys 192512 Nov 13 11:56 ./
thus 3777.
It appears that the user index directories created under DC1.1 look like
this (here for /var/dcindx/cep):
drwx--S--- 5 cep sys 256 Nov 13 14:26 cep/
while those created under V1.2 look like:
drwx------ 3 lrenart sys 256 Nov 12 14:59 lrenart/
It seems that the first time that DC goes to do indexing, I now see this
error msg:
Nov 12 11:45:15 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(bpyi):
open(/var/spool/mail/bpyi) failed: Permission denied (euid=2586(bpyi)
egid=2000(bard2) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail)
...but never again...
Questions:
1) Are the ownership and permissions on the /var/dcindx index root
directory ideal or should they be something else?
2) Ideally what should the ownership and permissions be for individual
user subdirs? I create the user mail directories when creating a new
account, so it would be little extra trouble to create and set the
ownership and permissions.
I am currently using mbox mailbox format but will be migrating to
maildir over the next some months.
Dovecot -n
# 1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 12
login_max_processes_count: 774
max_mail_processes: 1280
mail_max_userip_connections: 12
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 200
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
mbox_dirty_syncs: no
lda:
postmaster_address: postmas...@example.com
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
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