Postfix / Dovecot

M. Lewis _fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com
Sun Sep 4 21:56:34 UTC 2005


Stuart Sears wrote:
> M. Lewis enlightened us with the following gems on 09/04/2005 09:36 PM:
> 
>>(Related to '[FC4] Thunderbird Inbox gone')
>>
>>Would someone who is running Postfix and Dovecot please tell me the
>>perms on the files in /var/spool/mail/.
>>
>>I question whether my perms are correct based on an old backup.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mike
>>
> 
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root mail 4096 May 20 08:31 /var/spool/mail
> /var/spool/mail/<user>:
> -rw-rw----  1 <user>    mail      0 Apr 29 16:38 <user>
> 
> Stuart

Thanks Stuart.

That's what my old backups show. My current perms are:

 > -rw-------  1 <user>    mail      0 Apr 29 16:38 <user>

How they got changed is certainly a mystery. Not sure that will solve 
the problem, but will give it a try. Thanks.

M





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