On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I suppose the issue here is that the mailbox itself is group readable
> and writeable, but the lockfile in /tmp isn't, and this will be the case
> whichever user owns the mailbox (and hence the lockfile).

Yes, that's what I was hypothesizing, and you've confirmed it. 

> I couldn't see any way around this other than broadening the permissions
> set when Exim creates the lockfile in /tmp.  I suppose 0660 would have
> sufficed, but I used 0666 because that is what UW-IMAP seems to do.

The solution is, I think, to use the same permissions for an MBX lock file 
as for the mailbox itself. I will do this.

> For information, here is the transport I am using:
> 
> sharedbox_delivery:
>   driver = appendfile
>   mbx_format = true
>   message_prefix =
>   message_suffix =
>   file = /spool/mail/shared/${local_part}/${substr_8:${local_part_suffix}}
>   envelope_to_add
>   return_path_add
>   mode = 0660
    ^^^^^^^^^^^
    
For MBX deliveries, I will take that as the lock file mode as well. 

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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