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I'm trying to understand how the Maildir option for CiviMailProcessor.php is expected to work.

In a typical Linux/Unix Maildir setup, the Maildir and sub directories belong to the mail user with mode 700 permissions.  CiviMailProcessor.php runs under the uid of the web server when called via curl.  It fails completely unless some kind of permission for the web server user to access the Maildir is given.

I can give permission via adjusting the group and group permissions on the catchall Maildir. It properly creates its own Maildir at the custom files path location and moves the messages into that local mail store, but it then again fails because the messages are still "owned" by the catchall mail user at mode 700.

So was the Maildir option envisioned to run via command line interface under root's crontab?  If so, do the authentication variables need to be defined in the script itself?

Or was the catchall email user envisioned to be the same as the web server user?  Or am I completely looking up the wrong path?