[H-GEN] Courier IMAP shared folders

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Sun Oct 6 12:58:38 EDT 2002


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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Harry Phillips wrote:

> My problem is that when mail is created in that folder it has
> permissions of -rw-------
>
> How can I make it so that files that are created in that directory are
> created with permissions of -rw-rw----?

This would normally be done by setting the umask of the user that is to
create the file.  Checkout man umask.  Remember the umask really is a
_mask_ of the permissions to be set.  I believe the umask you will want
will be 002.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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