[Dovecot] Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

Daniel Reinhardt cryptodan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 13:11:13 EET 2013


Here are the non-verbose mode of the logs exhibiting the problem:

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Mar 15 06:56:37 andromeda dovecot: lda(cryptodan): Fatal: setgid(8(mail)
from mail_gid setting) failed with euid=1000(cryptodan),
gid=1000(cryptodan), egid=1000(cryptodan): Operation not permitted (This
binary should probably be called with process group set to 8(mail) instead
of 1000(cryptodan))


Mar 15 06:56:38 andromeda dovecot: lda(cryptodan): Fatal: setgid(8(mail)
from mail_gid setting) failed with euid=1000(cryptodan),
gid=1000(cryptodan), egid=1000(cryptodan): Operation not permitted (This
binary should probably be called with process group set to 8(mail) instead
of 1000(cryptodan))

Mar 15 06:56:38 andromeda postfix/local[5433]: E6DD110007E: to=<
cryptodan at cryptodan.net>, relay=local, delay=0.11, delays=0.07/0/0/0.04,
dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)

Mar 15 06:56:38 andromeda dovecot: lda(cryptodan): Fatal: setgid(8(mail)
from mail_gid setting) failed with euid=1000(cryptodan),
gid=1000(cryptodan), egid=1000(cryptodan): Operation not permitted (This
binary should probably be called with process group set to 8(mail) instead
of 1000(cryptodan))

Mar 15 06:56:38 andromeda postfix/local[5439]: 20BB2100076: to=<
cryptodan at cryptodan.net>, relay=local, delay=879, delays=879/0.01/0/0.03,
dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)

Mar 15 06:59:56 andromeda postfix/anvil[5420]: statistics: max connection
rate 1/60s for (smtp:209.85.212.41) at Mar 15 10:56:35

Mar 15 06:59:56 andromeda postfix/anvil[5420]: statistics: max connection
count 1 for (smtp:209.85.212.41) at Mar 15 10:56:35

Mar 15 06:59:56 andromeda postfix/anvil[5420]: statistics: max cache size 1
at Mar 15 10:56:35
///

I did not remove anything, just separated the log entries to make them more
readable.

dovecot   unix   -    n      n       -       -   pipe
        flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d
$(recipient)



On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com>wrote:

> On 2013-03-14 6:41 PM, Daniel Reinhardt <cryptodan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is the output of the postconf -n.  I aplogize for the postconf -d, as
>> I was not aware of the difference.
>>
>
> No problem... but you forgot the other most important thing...
>
> NON-VERBOSE postfix logs exhibiting the problem...
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>
>
>


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