Permissions with mailman

[Robert L Mathews]

On 7/3/14, 11:03 AM, Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬 wrote:

> Jul  2 15:29:39 blade01 dovecot: lda(list): Error: user list:
> Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location
> setting failed: mkdir(/var/mail/vmail//list/mail) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=38(list) egid=38(list)

> Now since dovecot is running as user vmail

According to the error, it's not running as user vmail for this
delivery. It's running as uid/gid 38, "list".

Look at how "lda" gets executed for this delivery to see why it's using
uid 38.

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/