cannot retrieve mail in desktop client

[JonL]

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From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam at whitemice.org>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 12:56 AM
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: cannot retrieve mail in desktop client

> Please reply to list if your MUA support it, rather than Reply-All.
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 23:11 +0800, JonL wrote:
>> after adding the required command in main.cf
>> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
>> I'm now getting the following error
>> Jun 30 23:05:24 mmtlnx postfix/qmgr[13978]: 05C4A19B8A:
>> from=<839556+2D3-jlmiller=mmtnetworks.com.au at lists.techtarget.com>,
>> size=4281, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Jun 30 23:05:24 mmtlnx postfix/lmtp[14146]: 05C4A19B8A:
>> to=<jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>, relay=none, delay=3, status=deferred
>> (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: 
>> Permission
>> denied)
>
> Does "/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" exist?  What are the permissions?
jlm:  srwxrwxrwx  1 root  root   0 2011-07-01 09:42 lmtp

> I assume lmtpd (the LMTP receiver is running [Cyrus is started]).
>
jlm:  from master.cf
       lmtp      unix  -       -       n       -       -       lmtp

> Where LMTP listens is defined in /etc/cyrus.conf
>
jlm /etc/cyrus.conf
        lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" 
prefork=0

> See the Cyrus chapter of WMOGAG for an explanation of cyrus.conf.
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/coils/files/WMOGAG-Coils.pdf/download>
>
>> I'm using:
>> Suse Linux Enterprise Server v 10 SP1 (will be moving to SP4)
>> Unfortunately I find the documentation not as clear as I had hoped.
>> Also do I need to make any changes to my transport table?
>
> Probably not; as seen via your error it is already trying to deliver via
> LMTP.
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