[Dovecot] Unable to get Dovecot LDA/deliver working

[Timo Sirainen]

On 19.7.2010, at 22.59, Frank van Amsterdam wrote:

> Scenario 1
> 
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 870720 mrt 18 17:54 /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
> 
> Scenario 2
> 
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 870720 mrt 18 17:54 /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver

None of these are what http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#multipleuids tells you to do.

> Scenario 3
> 
> I've changed /etc/sudoers
> 
> Defaults:dovelda !syslog
> mail          ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
> 
> And I've also changed /etc/postfix/master.cf
> 
> dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
> flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}
> 
> It looks like this is working for me. Is it secure enough?

Well, I'd use a dedicated user rather than "mail", just in case there is something else also running as mail.