Postfix can't connect to lmtp

[Simon Matter]

> On Friday 17 October 2003 10:24, Pascal Loic Gienger wrote:
>> Zitat von wim at unetix.nl:
>> > Hai,
>> > I checked and indeed permissions are set that way, but
>> > there seems to be different opinions on how to configure postfix.
>>
>> Add postfix to your cyrus group (which has the cyrus user).
>> This should do it.

This config usually works fine:

users:
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
cyrus:x:76:12:Cyrus IMAP Server:/var/lib/imap:/bin/bash
postfix:x:89:89:Postfix MTA:/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin

groups:
mail:x:12:mail,postfix
postdrop:x:90:
postfix:x:89:


>
> According to :
> http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/install-configure.html
> ---------------------
> One thing you need to watch out for is the UID and GID of the Postfix
> software. As it states in the Postfix "INSTALL" document, you must create
> a
> new account that does not share its UID and GID with any other user
> account.
> This is for security reasons. If you installed Postfix with a GID of
> "mail",
> you will need to select a different GID for Cyrus. See the Cyrus configure
> options "--with-cyrus-user" and "--with-cyrus-group". (This was more
> crucial
> when the use of Cyrus' "deliver" was more prevalent, but it is still a
> good
> idea to follow this policy.)
> --------------------
> I did just that, give another GID to postfix, different from cyrus. Now
> I followed your advise and gave postfix the GID of cyrus and suddenly
> a lot of anomalies have disappeared but sending mail is no longer
> an option:
> ---
> Oct 17 13:07:39 aardappel postfix/pipe[13001]: fatal: request to use mail
> system owner group id 12
> --
> but... changing
> mailbox_transport = cyrus
> to
> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/imap/socket/lmtp
> in main.cf postfix takes care of that last little bug.
> Thanx , I think I now have a fully working basic setup.
> Tha last remaining issue is the creation of folders
> by users. I use thunderbird as a test mail-client, configured
> to use imap. I can send & receive mail without problems, but
> when I try to create a new folder in my top-level folder I get
> an error that I don't have permission to do so, but when I create
> an extra folder in e.g. the Inbox from the top-level directory
> it's OK. Suppose that's the way things are set up in cyrus .
>
> Thanks ,Wim Bakker
>
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