LMTP ownership?

Murat Ergur murat at ergur.org
Tue Oct 21 17:36:22 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:39, Doug Koobs wrote:
> Setting up Postfix and Cyrus on RH9. I can send mail, but can not seem to
> receive. In /var/log/maillog, the following error shows up:
> 
> (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: No such
> file or directory)
> 
> The file does exist, and is owned by root, but has rwx set for all other
> users:
> 
> [root at mail socket]# pwd
> /var/lib/imap/socket
> [root at mail socket]# ls -l lmtp
> srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Oct 21 16:08 lmtp
> [root at mail socket]#
> 
> 
> What do I need to do to fix this? Go to the Postfix mailing list? :) Does
> the sticky bit have something to do with this?

Check the permissions of parent directories too. I guess, /var/imap does
not have access permission to postfix.

Murat Ergur






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