[Dovecot] Cannot get dovecot-sieve to work

[Nick Lunt]

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> From: dovecot-bounces+nick.lunt=patech-solutions.com at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+nick.lunt=patech-solutions.com at dovecot.org] On
> Behalf Of Steffen Kaiser
> Sent: 28 January 2010 11:47
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Cannot get dovecot-sieve to work
> 
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> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Nick Lunt wrote:
> 
> >> Here is what I have put in sendmail.cf
> >>
> >> Mdovecot,       P=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver, F=DFMPhnu9,
> >>                 S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP,
> >>                 T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
> >>                 A=deliver -d $u
> 
> Did you configured mailertable to deliver the messages through the
> "dovecot" mailer?
> 
> I prefer:
> dnl -f $g -- sender
> dnl -d $u -- destination user account name
> dnl -m $h -- mailbox to deliver to (+detail part of address)
> dnl -n    -- don't create new mailbox
> FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/etc/mail/smrsh/dovecot-deliver',
> `/etc/mail/smrsh/dovecot-deliver -e -f $g -d $u -m $h')dnl
> MAILER_DEFINITIONS
> MAILER(`local')dnl
> MAILER(`smtp')dnl
> 
> > Jan 28 12:36:26 deliver(nickl): Error:
> > file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/nickl) failed: Permission denied
> > (euid=503(nickl) egid=503(nickl) missing +w perm: /var/mail) (set
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > mail_privileged_group=mail)
> 
> 
> > Here are the permissions on /var/mail/
> > # ls -ld /var/spool/mail
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 11:02 /var/spool/mail
>                      ^^^^
> >
> > mail_access_groups: mail
> > mail_privileged_group: mail
> 
> Won't work with deliver, maybe only if it is SUID.
> 
> =====
> 
> If Dovecot is the only process accessing /var/mail/file, you could:
> 
> a) use another location for INBOX,
> b) use flock.

Hi Steffan

thank you for the pointers, however I have decided to move over to
postfix. I have sent a message with a new error to the list.

Thanks
Nick

 
 

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