Cyrus Imap - Postfix - lmtp or pipe ? And why ? And How ?

[Chris Scott]

Bryntez wrote:

> Thanks for the advisory.
>
> I was trying to change from "pipe" to "lmtp" earlier today
> but I was getting "permission denied" in the maillog.
>
> So my next question is:
> What permissions has to be set to get this to work ?
>
> <snip>
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/home/mailusers/imap/socket/lmtp
>
> the lmtp socket itself, has "root.root" permissions.
> imap belongs to "cyrus.mail"
> postfix belongs to "postfix.postdrop"
> postfix owner = postfix
>
The cyrus and postfix users need access to /var/imap/socket/lmtp.  You 
could create a group and add both those users to it and do a chgrp on 
the socket to that group and it should work.

Hope this helps,
Chris Scott