[Dovecot] dovecot LDA with sendmail

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 05:14:38 EEST 2012


Timo, in response to Hadi, wrote:

>> Apr 24 20:25:46 lda(jamal at example.com): Fatal:
>> setgid(5000(vmail) from userdb lo
>>                 okup) failed with
>> euid=8(mail), gid=12(mail), egid=12(mail): Operation not permi
>> tted (This binary should probably be called with process group set to 5000(vmail
>> ) instead of 12(mail))
>
> Configure your MTA to run dovecot-lda as vmail instead of as mail.

Yeah, what he said.  Someone helpfully added documentation on how to do
this at the end of Dovecot1's wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail),
which probably should be copied to Dovecot 2's wiki.  So that's what I
did.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>



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