[Dovecot] using dovecot deliver

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Per Laine wrote:

> in dovecot-deliver.log that says "Can't connect to auth server at
> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot: Permission denied" Im using

IMHO the error message is very descriptive:
"Permission denied" :)

>  passdb:
>    driver: passwd-file
>    args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd-file
>    args: /etc/dovecot/users

Looks like system users

>  socket:
>    type: listen
>    client:
>      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>      mode: 432
>      user: postfix
>      group: postfix

IMHO Postfix executes deliver with system user privilegues, hence, 
"postfix" is not correct. The permission must allow all your system users 
to connect to this socket.

Or follow the adivce on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix
"If you need multiple uids/gids you'll need to set deliver setuid root or 
invoke it through sudo. See the LDA main page how to do this securely."
Dovecot picks up the destination user from "-d" then.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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