[qmailtoaster] Make mail messages readable by all

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Chen
The email messages all have the very tight permission 600. We have many group accounts whose messages need to be readable by all. Is there a way to set permission to 644 somewhere in qmailtoaster? Since the /home/user is already protected with 700, I am not concerned about privacy or security

Re: [qmailtoaster] Make mail messages readable by all

2012-03-19 Thread Délsio Cabá
I don't get it. Why do you want to change permission? What do you mean by group accounts? On 19 March 2012 19:01, Richard Chen rich...@doubleprime.com wrote: The email messages all have the very tight permission 600. We have many group accounts whose messages need to be readable by all. Is

Re: [qmailtoaster] Make mail messages readable by all

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Chen
We archive error emails from web sites which are then nfs mounted to the eng server so that they can help troubleshooting issues. The archived emails are collected by sitenames which act as group accounts. But this means mails for each site will be readable by that account alone which is not what

Re: [qmailtoaster] Make mail messages readable by all

2012-03-19 Thread Dan McAllister
Shortcutting all of the permissions issues, if you have an e-mail account that is to be shared, why not just use one mailbox that multiple people can access with IMAP? There is no limit to the number of users who can be logged into a single IMAP account -- I do this all the time for bosses

Re: [qmailtoaster] Make mail messages readable by all

2012-03-19 Thread Richard Chen
Those are archived (local) files on the servers and therefore are not available via imap because these servers are web servers and not email servers. In other words, they are created by qmail client with email addrs like local_user-all@localmachine. We just want these email files to be accessible