I can hardly believe I'm posting a question this weird, but here goes:
I have a mail server running qmail in a maildir setup. As a part of my anti-spam training regimen, I regularly move messages between directories and re-assign permissions accordingly.
What's weird is that when I type a command such as:
# chown -R mailadmin /home/mailadmin/Maildir
It has the effect of setting ownership to mailadmin on messages that are *not* in this directory tree. What's weirder is that it only seems to do so for messages that were delivered directly to a different user... never for a message that was actually transferred in (and out) of ~mailadmin/
I have actually verified this by doing something like the following:
ls -al ~user/Maildir/new; chown -R mailadmin /home/mailadmin/Maildir; ls -al ~user/Maildir/new
Which shows the correct permissions immediately before the chown and the incorrect permissions immediately after.
Possibly useful fact: all users may write to ~mailadmin/Maildir as all users use it as a "drop box" for potential spam.
I've worked around the problem but I'd be very interested to learn what's going on here. Any ideas or theories at all?
Thanks,
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