I figured out the solution to the problem. I was configuring the mode in
the transport maildir_home, when I should have been configuring it in
transport address_directory. Once I made that change to my
configuration, the 'mode' and 'directory_mode' settings worked as expected.
-David Mitchell
David Mitchell wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm using Exim on a Debian stable system and am having a configuration
> problem. I'm trying to deliver email to a maildir location in a users
> .forward file using the filter syntax. It all works fine, but the newly
> created directories end up with mode 0700. As I would like these to be
> shared directories, I want to specify mode 0750. I've tried setting the
> 'directory_mode' configuration option to no avail. It just seems to have
> no effect at all. I (think) I've verified it's set with the following.
> Is there something I'm missing? Should I expect this to work? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> $ exim4 -bP transport maildir_home | grep mode
> directory_mode = 0750
> lockfile_mode = 0600
> mode = 0640
> no_mode_fail_narrower
>
>
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