[Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot Deliver LDA

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:00 +0100, spammy wrote:
> master.cf (maildrop line commented. -f ${recipient} in maildrop was 
> working ok)
> 
> dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>  flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient}
..
> dovecot: 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth(default): master out: USER      
> 1       vaina at neenux.com        uid=5000        gid=5000
> deliver(vaina at neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: 
> vaina at neenux.com
> deliver(vaina at neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: uid=5000
> deliver(vaina at neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: gid=5000
> deliver(vaina at neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Fatal: setuid(5000) 
> failed: Operation not permitted

If deliver is already running as uid 5000 (like your Postfix dovecot
line shows), this shouldn't be happening. So for some reason your
Postfix isn't calling deliver with UID 5000..

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