Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[Scott Russell]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:53:07AM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Amos Gouaux wrote:
> 
> >To quote <Victor.Duchovni at morganstanley.com>:
> >
> >  The "lmtp" delivery agent should be listening on "private/lmtp", so it
> >  will work, but...
> 
> But since this directory is writable only by user 'postfix' cyrus 
> (running as user cyrus) wouldn't be able to create the socket there
> >
> >  This said, the public and private directories are for internal Postfix
> >  IPC. The LMTP server should be using a different subdirectory of
> >  /var/spool/postfix.
> 
> or a different directory altogether (since actually the socket is owned 
> by cyrus).
> 

Having Cyrus setup it's lmtp socket under /var/spool/postfix (but not
/public or /private) is the right thing to do. I say this because
often postfix runs in a chroot env and won't access the lmtp socket if
it's outside of /var/spool/postfix

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