Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?
The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is
caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users mailbox
in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory. Naturally, this
fails when the user is not a member of group mail.
What is the reason for mailboxes to be owned by group mail when in Debian
we have per-user groups and AFAIK no daemons or other system processes
belong to the mail group?
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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