From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 11:11:45 EST
This all works as you describe, provided that directory permissions
are correctly configured: the recipient uid and/or gid must have write
permission.
Postfix will not create a directory in a world-writable directory,
because that is a security hole.
Wietse
George Barbarosie:
> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 22:33, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Yes. This requires that you set directory permissions correctly. The
> > userid that receives the mail must be able to create the necessary
> > directory and files.
>
> This can be useful for many setups like the one described by Michel.
>
> Does this work on multiple dir levels? I mean, if the 'parent' directory
> does not exist but can be created by the virtual user, will it be
> created along with the maildir? I think it will not, but correct me if I
> am wrong.
>
> There are situations where this directory tree automatic creation may be
> useful, for example when dealing with tons of maildirs for each domain,
> one may decide to create subdirs based on the first couple of letters of
> the accounts, similar to what caching programs frequently do.
>
> Thx,
> georgeb
>
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