lmtp permission denied with cyrus 2.1.13 and postfix 1.1.11

[Andrzej Filip]

John Pavlakis wrote:
> I have seen this problem many times on the mailing
> list but no good solution. I have upgraded my cyrus
> install and now things do not work. This is a fresh
> install, I have moved the old directories out of the
> way completely.
> 
> I get in my mail.log:
> connect to
> /var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp]:
> Permission denied
> 
> which has these perms
> srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 16
> 10:36 lmtp
> 
> I have tried: cyrus:mail, postfix:postfix,
> postfix:mail, cyrus:postfix and a mutual group for the
> 2 users even. No dice.
> 
> this is the relevant line is postfix's master.cf:
> local     unix  -       n       n       -       -     
>  local -o mailbox_transpo
> rt=lmtp:unix:/var/imap/socket/lmtp
> 
> and my cyrus.conf line is:
>  lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd -a"
> listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0
> 
> I have tried with and without the "-a" and with
> varying values for prefork, which I don't think would
> make a difference.
> 
> "this worked before"
> 

Have you checked permissions of parent directories ?
/var/imap/socket/,/var/imap/,...

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Andrzej [pl>en: Andrew] Adam Filip http://www.polbox.com/a/anfi/