$50 to anyone who can help me fix this problem (serious)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Bruce A. Bergman wrote:
> A directory of  /var/imap:
> drwxr-x---    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Nov 21 19:05 db
> drwxr-x---    3 cyrus    mail         4096 Jun 17 11:25 deliverdb
> drwxr-x---    2 cyrus    mail         4096 May 12  2003 log
> -rwxr-x---    1 cyrus    mail            0 Mar  2  2001 mailboxes
> -rw-------    1 cyrus    root        16384 Nov  9 12:09 mailboxes.db
> drwxr-x---    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Dec  1  2002 msg
> drwxr-x---    2 cyrus    mail         8192 Nov 21 19:29 proc
> drwxr-x---   28 cyrus    mail         4096 Sep 19  2002 quota
> drwxr-xr-x    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Nov 21 19:05 socket

> A directory of /var/imap/socket:
> srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Nov 21 19:05 lmtp
> srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 15  2003 xyz

> In /var/log/messages, I see:
> Nov 21 19:51:03 mh2 deliver[20072]: connect(/var/imap/socket/lmtp) failed:
> Permission denied

sendmail needs filesystem permisions to have write access to
/var/imap/socket. A Unix socket is often rm'ed before it is re-created and
open.

There are many ways to archieve this, the simple one is to chmod 777
/var/imap/socket

Here, I have a unix group that has write access to that dir, and I have the
MTA and Cyrus belong to that group. It works well with postfix, and I
suppose it will work with sendmail too if you can tell it to use that group
when opening /var/imap/socket.

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  Henrique Holschuh