[Dovecot] Using deliver from Getmail?

[mouss]

Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008 18:47:27 Evaggelos Balaskas wrote:
>> This is part of my getmailrc
>>
>> [destination]
>> type = MDA_external
>> path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>> user = ebal
>> group = mail
>> arguments = ( '-d', 'ebal' )
>>
>> i use getmail + dovecot + sieve + spamassassin [filter getmail]
>> at all of my accounts.
> 
> Thank you for your reply!
> 
> I can't seem to be too far off with my configuration, but it's just not 
> working yet. Your user "ebal" is part of the group "mail", I gather? 
> 

I don't think this matters. he runs deliver as the user who owns the
mailbox (see -d argument).

> After adding my user to the mail group and modifying my rc-file such that it 
> looks identical to yours (apart from the usernames of course) I still get the 
> following errors:
> 
> Delivery error (command deliver 29175 error (127, exec of command deliver 
> failed (change UID/GID to 1000/8 failed ([Errno 1] Operation not 
> permitted))))
> 
> UID 1000 is of course my user. Upon removing the line "group = mail" from the 
> rc-file I get:
> 
> Delivery error (command deliver 29696 error (75, ))
> 
> Do you know what to make of this?
> 
> Thanks again, 
> 
> Andreas