Package: dovecot-common
Version: 1.0.rc2-2
Severity: wishlist

Currently the comment about mail_extra_groups says:

# Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be
# to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks.

My first concern was whether "these extra groups" should be separated by
colons or by spaces. Trawling through the other options gave
ssl_cipher_list where the example uses a colon to separate the values.
Unfortunately an error in the log soon demonstrated that that was
wrong...

My second concern is whether on a typical Debian installation
Debian-exim should be included in this list, in addition to (or perhaps
instead of?) mail.

Also, what it does exactly is not quite clear, from the wording... how
could a process give "random" other groups permission to do stuff with
e.g. /var/mail.  Does it mean that dovecot processes that want to do
stuff get those groups' privileges? That's a bit different from the
text.


Thanks,
Paul Slootman


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