OpenMacNews wrote:
and configs of:
**** dovecot.conf **** ... socket listen { master { path = /var/Process/dovecot/auth-master mode = 666 } } ... login_user = mailuser_login login_dir = /var/Process/dovecot/login ....
**** dovecot-deliver.conf **** .... auth_socket_path = /var/Process/dovecot/auth-master ....
starting dovecot immediately results in a couple of 'Warnings':
% /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -c /var/Settings/Dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: Corrected permissions for base directory/var/Process/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/Process/dovecot/login
As I said, dovecot forces 700 permissions on the login directory at startup. To workaround that, change the path of your auth-master socket, e.g. to /var/run (or whatever suits in your OSX). Just make sure that the user the LDA runs as has at least r-x rights to this directory and its parents.
"You could also use user = root to make sure that Exim has write access
Yes, it's me who wrote that. :)
so, QUESTIONS: (1) where's "auth-master"?
Don't know. Are you sure you put this whole "socket listen" thing into an "auth" section ("auth default" if you only have one).
(2) and WHICH permissions are the problem?
As the socket should have been created with 0666, it can only be the directory permissions.
Here are the relevant parts of my dovecot.conf:
auth default { passdb passwd-file { args = /passwd }
userdb static { args = uid=103 gid=104 home=/var/spool/vmail/%Lu }
user = dovecot-auth chroot = /etc/dovecot
socket listen { master { path = /var/spool/vmail/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = vmail } }
}
and exim.conf:
dovecot_deliver: driver = pipe ... user = vmail
and dovecot-deliver.conf:
mail = maildir:%h/Maildir/ auth_socket_path = /var/spool/vmail/auth-master