[Dovecot] postfix + dovecot lda,

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Sep 9 06:08:31 EEST 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:53 +0100, Michael Moritz wrote:
> I'm trying to replace procmail with deliver but I'm having problems with the 
> group part of things. I keep getting:
> 
> Aug 29 16:44:19 dingbat deliver(mimo): 
> open(/var/mail/.temp.dingbat.3969.d1689935a308e0dd) failed: Permission denied
> Aug 29 16:44:19 dingbat deliver(mimo): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox 
> file /var/mail/mimo: Permission denied
> 
> My primary group is mimo and I think it's trying to use that. I changed it to 
> mail and things work. But I do not want all my users to have a primary group 
> mail. 
> 
> Is there a way I can force deliver to use group mail as group and ignore the 
> per user gid?

Do you run deliver as root? If so, for now you could do this:

protocol lda {
  restrict_setextragroups = mail
}

I'll fix mail_extra_groups to work with deliver for v1.0.5.

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