Cyrus + postfix

Raymond Sundland raymond at sundland.com
Thu Feb 5 09:30:21 EST 2004


Are you running postfix as user 'cyrus'???  It should be running as 
another user, usually 'postfix'.

In this case, you want to perform the same test as user 'postfix' in 
order to determine real-world ability to write to that socket.

EppO wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Raymond Sundland" <raymond at sundland.com>
> To: "EppO" <eppo at darox.net>
> Cc: "Simon Matter" <simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com>;
> <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Cyrus + postfix
> 
> 
> 
>>Check the permissions of the socket's parent directory, as well as it's
>>parent, etc etc.
>>
> 
> I already done that. I re-checked in su-ing in cyrus user and try te access
> this socket, and I succeeded.
> I tried to chown this file to cyrus and mail user/group, but it failed too.
> So I don't know what to do...
> 
> 
>>EppO wrote:
>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>From: "Simon Matter" <simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com>
>>>To: "Florent" <eppo at darox.net>
>>>Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>>>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:30 AM
>>>Subject: Re: Cyrus + postfix
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I try to configure postfix 2.0 using cyrus 2.1.16
>>>>>I put in main.cf:
>>>>>mailbox_transport = cyrus
>>>>
>>>>Don't do that. Use
>>>>
>>>>mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>>>>
>>>>and you don't have to touch master.cf.
>>>>
>>>>Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>I tried to do that earlier but postfix says:
>>>
>>>Feb 5 07:40:35 trinity postfix/lmtp[602]: D8D9F43E8D: to=<test at trinity>,
>>>orig_to=<test>, relay=none, delay=1, status=deferred (connect to
>>>/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp[/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp]: Permission
> 
> denied)
> 
>>>I look at the lmtp socket and :
>>>rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 5 07:39 /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp
>>>
>>>the path is different (I'am using debian but i think it's the file you
> 
> want
> 
>>>me to use)
>>>
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>>
>>
> 
> 

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