Just realized my email was not going to the list.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 14:20, Romer Ventura rventura@h-st.com wrote:
I am using static uids: mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail user = vmail group = vmail
else it will do what you describe.
I have that, too. But it's not running the right userid. Deliver is running as the userid Postfix starts it as. How could it be any different since deliver is not suid root (nor should it be, afaik). It seems that I need to tell Postfix a specific userid to run it as (and tell it that userid is vmail). I haven't found how to do that, yet.
I'm also getting wrong mail_location. The variable %d comes up empty. I verified that Postfix actually is passing the full user@domain, in the message header, and in the -a argument (as coded in main.cf mainbox_command =).
Maybe I need to make /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver be suid vmail? That would open it up to logged in system users injecting into mailboxes.
Thanks
Romer Ventura
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:59, Romer Ventura rventura@h-st.com wrote:
I had to chmod 777 for it to work..
I did chmod 777 to see what it would do, and especially, what userid the log files were owned by. Bad news from that ... they are owned by the first user I sent email to. That seems to me to be a Postfix issue where Postfix still thinks I mailing to local system users, and running the deliver program under such a userid. When I start adding users which don't have local system user equivalents, that's going to be a problem
Also, I'm finding that in mail_location = the variable %d is empty. It should be the domain. Again, this seems like Postfix is treating local delivery as all-users-are-equivalent for any local domain (and that is definitely not the case). So I need to look at some Postfix config now to see how to make it pass the full email address (user@domain ... so %n@%d represents the email address), and to run dovecot/deliver as user vmail.
At least I'm not using sendmail :-)
This old legacy "system user" thing is sure a PITA. It should either be ON or OFF. log files automatically named by the date (and maybe time) ... kind of like in a shell script I would do:
date +/path/to/tree/%Y/%m/%d.logor such.