[Dovecot] auth-master: Permission denied [sigh]

[James Butler]

Please take a look at my post from 1:05PM today with all of my
configuration information. Is the problem being caused by something there?
I have been working on this for over two weeks, and I have no idea what's
what, anymore.

Now I DO understand that it's either setuid-root deliver and use -d from
the pipe or do not use setuid-root deliver or -d or a pipe.

As it is, there is no other mechanism that I can think of to include an
anti-spam program in the mail delivery stream. And I haven't even gotten
started trying to include an anti-virus program! (I'm assuming that, too,
will require a pipe.)

If there is a setup guide for running Postfix+Spamassassin+Dovecot that
does not require a pipe, I would be MORE than grateful to learn its
location. I have yet to discover one. Even within the config files and
docs there are no examples of piping to deliver from Spamassassin, which
seems a little unusual, considering the popularity of Spamassassin.

James

> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 14:17 -0700, James Butler wrote:
>> Oh, that was fun.
>>
>> Making the change below resulted in mail getting deferred with "Fatal:
>> destination user parameter (-d user) not given" ... which apparently is
>> caused by running deliver as 'root'!
>
> I thought you wanted to use -d? There's really no way to make deliveries
> working to multiple users via pipe, unless you use -d.
>
> Perhaps you shouldn't be using the pipe at all. Maybe you should just
> put the command to mailbox_command and have it do all the work? Then
> there's no need to worry about things like setuid-roots or whatever.
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