On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, dss@??? 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.
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