On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:16:51 +0200 Serge D serge@cis.by wrote:
Hello everybody!
I am a Linux admin trying to move my mail system based on qmail to the software which is more spam-protected: exim4 + dovecot-1.0rc15 + pgsql . I've downloaded and rebuild dovecot from src.rpm (for fc4). During the testing stage I've discovered two troubles:
- the problem with deliver (...I'm not sure it's a really bug). Here is relevant part of my /var/log/messages :
Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge@test.net): auth input: serge@test.net Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge@test.net): auth input: home=/var/spool/mail/test.net/serge/ Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge@test.net): auth input: uid=500 Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge@test.net): auth input: gid=12 Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge@test.net): setuid(500) failed: Operation not permitted
I'm not a Linux user, but I often see messages like this where various enhanced security packages cause problems, have you ruled these out?
Either that or deliver is being run as user with insufficient rights. You shouldn't have to chmod the mail store, the delivery program assumes the appropriate credentials. At least that is how I understand it.
Hope this helps, Dominic