Sunil Mohan Adapa 828cc73320
email: Add various documentation links for future readability
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
2022-03-02 07:38:53 -05:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
"""
Privileged actions to setup users' dovecot mail home directory.
See:
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/user_databases_userdb/
"""
import subprocess
from plinth import actions
def setup():
"""Set correct permissions on /var/mail/ directory.
For each user, /var/mail/<user> is the 'dovecot mail home' for that user.
Dovecot creates new directories with the same permissions as the parent
directory. Ensure that 'others' can access /var/mail/.
"""
actions.superuser_run('email', ['home', 'setup'])
def action_setup():
"""Run chmod on /var/mail to remove all permissions for 'others'."""
subprocess.run(['chmod', 'o-rwx', '/var/mail'], check=True)