Permision problem with lmtp

[Simon Matter]

> Simon Matter wrote:
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>Im a newbie, and im trying to setup postfix to deliver mail to cyrus,
>>>and i have setup this in my postfix config:
>>>
>>>mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>>>
>>>In mi maillog i get this when receiving mail:
>>>
>>>--- maillog ---
>>>Oct 12 13:31:28 moso postfix/lmtp[7607]: 6E60C10FC89:
>>>to=<soeren at localhost.moso.dk>, orig_to=<soeren at neigaard.com>,
>>>relay=none, delay=12, status=deferred (connect to
>>>/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: Permission denied)
>>>--- maillog ---
>>>
>>>So i have a permission problem, but what is it? ls -asl
>>>/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp gives this:
>>>
>>>4 srwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Oct 12 09:09 /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>>>
>>>So everyone should have write permissions, right?
>>
>>
>> 1)
>> You also have to check permissions of the directories.
>
> Here are the permissions:
>
> 8 drwxr-xr-x   26 root root  4096 Oct 12 09:10 var
> 8 drwxr-xr-x  29 root    root     4096 Oct 13 10:32 lib
> 8 drwxr-x---  14 cyrus     mail    4096 Oct 13 13:09 imap
> 8 drwxr-x---   2 cyrus mail 4096 Oct 12 09:09 socket
>
> I tried a:
> usermod -G mail postfix
>
> but that didnt help, do i need write permissions for the socket dir for
> the mail group also?

No. But how does your postfix and cyrus user look like? Show us 'id
postfix' and 'id cyrus' please.

>
>
>> 2)
>> Maybe your postfix/lmtp runs chrooted. Then you have a problem. The
>> easiest solution would be to disable chroot for lmtp in postfix
>> master.cf
>
> Its not chrooted:
>
> #====================================================================#
> service type  private unpriv  chroot  wakeup  maxproc command + args
> #               (yes)   (yes)   (yes)   (never) (100)
> #====================================================================lmtp
>     unix  -       -       n       -       -       lmtp
>
>
> /Søren
>
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