Why do mail folder permissions keep changing?

[10101]

Hi,

As the title says, why do permissions keep changing on mail folders? Every time we run "Repair Mailbox permissions" from WHM it corrects several accounts.

 

[chirpy]

The main cause is the third-party webmail apps, i.e. Neomail, SquirrelMail and Horde.

 

[Ivanner]

Hi. I have the following problem.
Every few hours the mail permissions get changed from walshcu:mail to the following:

drwxr-x--- 2 walshcu mail 4096 Jun 23 15:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 walshcu mail 4096 May 8 08:15 ../
-rw-rw---- 1 waltpar waltpar 282079 Jun 20 17:40 inbox
-rw-rw---- 1 willsco willsco 514 Jun 18 21:31 INBOX.Drafts
-rw-rw---- 1 yecocr5 yecocr5 514 Jun 18 21:31 INBOX.Sent
-rw-rw---- 1 walshcu mail 514 Jun 18 21:31 INBOX.Trash
-rw-rw---- 1 walshcu mail 560 Jun 8 2005 jw-sent-mail
-rw-rw---- 1 warnerr warnerr 36 Jun 18 21:31 .mailboxlist
-rw-rw---- 1 walshcu mail 12381 Jun 23 15:23 spam

This only happens on one user.
/scripts/mailperm does not fix it

I have to go and do "chown -R walshcu:mail /home/walshcu/mail" and everything starts working again (for a few hours) and after a while it goes back to the wrong permissions.

Any way to stop this from happening?