Hello,

I'm trying to set up dovecot as the delivery agent for postfix. I configured postfix with:

mailbox_command = = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver

In the logs I see the following error:

Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: open(/var/mail/.temp.zalm.8045.65c09c28953ea20c) failed: Permission denied Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/rgevaert: Permission denied Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm postfix/local[8044]: 9790BBE4A: to=rgevaert@zalm.ugent.be, relay=local, delay=0, status=deferred (temporary failure)

Info:

zalm:~# ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Sep 20 16:56 /var/mail

Giving o write access to the folder fixed it, but not in a way it has to be :)

I already added mail_extra_groups = mail to dovecot.conf

But this doesn't help.

What have I missed.

Thanks in advance,

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