[Dovecot] Ubuntu, Exim, deliver: permissions/setgid problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26.1.2007, at 6.01, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> I have a little problem. I'm trying to set up Dovecot deliver (1.0  
> beta
> 3) as the LDA for Exim4 on Ubuntu 6.06 with MBOX, and I'm running into
> permissions problems. Exim typically wants to run pipes as the user to
> whom the mail is being delivered (as per the "check_local_user").
> deliver needs access to the auth socket and needs to be able to create
> files in /var/mail.

If Exim sets the UID/GID already, does it also set HOME environment,  
or can you set default_mail_env without relying on the home dir  
coming from userdb? In that case if you just don't give -d parameter  
to deliver, it won't even try to connect to dovecot-auth and it won't  
try to change uid/gid.


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