[Dovecot] SELinux and "i_stream_read() failed: Permission denied"

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 16:47 -0700, James Butler wrote:
> "i_stream_read() failed: Permission denied" is an error message generated
> when a large-ish file (>128kb in my case) is attached to a message that
> has been passed to Dovecot's deliver program when SELinux is being
> enforced.
..
> The problem is that deliver is not running with the correct SELinux policy
> to be able to write to the global /tmp directory

BTW. Dovecot v1.2+ no longer writes to /tmp directory. Writing to /tmp
was pretty evil.

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