On 6.10.2010, at 0.26, David Ford wrote: > it's a bug in dovecot to assume a) the user wants this gid change even > without setgid, and b) that it can change the gid to an arbitrary value > of a parent directory. > > other software runs as <something>:net-mail, and it's use and operation > is not applicable to this discussion. mode 0700 is not functional for > this group of software and mode 0770 is too lax.
Your situation seems like a very special case that probably doesn't exist just about anywhere else. Unless someone can give me a specific use case for this that can't be solved nicely some other way, I'm not changing Dovecot's behavior.
