Re: Bug#92981: uw-imapd-ssl: can't use maildir format with uw-imap (fwd)

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:

> zenon:/var/mail# ls -la
> total 2997
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mail          209 Apr  9 11:16 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root          296 Feb 10 22:55 ../
> -rw-------    1 edith    mail      1851746 Apr  6 13:20 edith
> -rw-------    1 isabelle mail        12046 Apr  9 11:16 isabelle
> -rw-------    1 ldm      mail            0 Apr  9 10:49 ldm
> -rw-------    1 lemine   mail            0 Apr  9 10:22 lemine
> -rw-------    1 postgres mail        93888 Apr  9 04:00 postgres
> -rw-------    1 root     mail            0 Dec 23 01:02 root
> -rw-------    1 tehani   mail      1102371 Apr  7 21:58 tehani
> -rw-------    1 vindex   mail            0 Apr  9 11:14 vindex
>
> Is it a problem that the spool files are not "rw" for the group? Postfix
> delivers that way.
>

Then postfix is violating Debian policy.  See
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch12.html#s12.6 .

Actually the specific statement there is kind of ambiguous.

"Mailboxes are generally 660 user.mail unless the user has chosen
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
otherwise."
^^^^^^^^^^

Does that mean I have to support any kind of configuration a user could
possibly come up with?

I'm ccing debian-devel on this for clarification.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>