[Dovecot] Error - Dovecot Permission denied

[Sahil Tandon]

kbajwa <kbajwa at tibonline.net> wrote:

> Since I posted this original messages, I have installed, re-installed
> Postfix-2.3.3, Dovecot-1.1.1 & Dovecot-Sieve-1.1.5 over and over & still got
> the "Permission Denied" error (see "/var/log/maillog" logs below).
> 
> Here what I found! If I add the following in "/etc/postfix/main.cf";
> 
> Mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
> 
> Then the "Permission Denied" error appears and all mail is bounced back with
> error message.
> 
> If I remove this line, all emails are delivered fine. No error.

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> (2) what if I leave this line out? Would it cause problem with either
> Dovecot or Dovecot-Sieve?         

Unlikely; not setting mailbox_command just means Postfix will use local(8) 
for mail delivery.

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> Jul 27 09:16:24 www postfix/local[5623]: E31DA41C0028:
> to=<test at wildpeacockstudios.com>, relay=local, delay=0.99,
> delays=0.74/0.03/0/0.22, dsn=5.3.5, status=bounced (local configuration
> error. Command output: Fatal: open(/etc/dovecot.conf) failed: Permission
> denied )
    
What are the permissions on /etc/dovecot.conf?  The mailbox_command is run 
with the UID and the primary group GID of the recipient, so if the conf file 
is unreadable by that user/group, you see the error above.  

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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>