[Dovecot] auth-master: Permission denied [sigh]

[Noel Butler]

Unless they've changed something, doesn't the S.A method as you are
using generate backscatter, I'd be using something more efficient like
MailScanner or amavisd-new
either will take you no more than 15 minutes to setup and avoid the past
several days of your problems, pf and dovecot work well together.


On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 08:48, James Butler wrote:

> My latest test:
> 
> spam:dovecot => user: spam
> user1:dovecot => user: user1
> root:dovecot => binary: /usr/local/libexec/deliver
> root:dovecot 777 => dir: /var/run/dovecot/
> 
> Still getting:
> 
> deliver(user1): Can't connect to auth server at \
>  /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Permission denied
> 
> What's the key to this problem?
> 
> If I set spam, user1, deliver and /var/run/dovecot/ to the same group, and
> give read/write permission in that directory to that group, why can't they
> all use auth-master?
> 
> 1) User 'spam:dovecot' runs Smapassassin
> 2) Hands off to deliver (root:dovecot)
> 3) Deliver assumes 'user1:dovecot' identity
> 4) Can't access auth-master in 'root:dovecot' directory (777)
> 
> So it's 'auth-master' that is (a) not available to 'user1' AND (b) not
> available to group 'dovecot'. Huh? Why not?