[Dovecot] Sendmail + deliver; silent errors.

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Daryl Tester wrote:

You are using system users?

> *)  The setuid users listed in the wiki kept result in setgid()

What setuid users?

> failures from deliver, so I've changed it to root:mail (mail being
> sendmail's MDA group), with permissions as u+s,g+rx,o-rwx
>
> When sendmail attempts delivery, I'm getting "deferred: deliver
> failed with EX_TEMP", but nothing recorded in the log files.  I've
> embarrassingly widened the permissions of /var/log/dovecot and the

I changed logging of deliver to syslog for this reason:
protocol lda {
[...]
   # Log to syslog
   log_path =
   info_log_path =
   syslog_facility = mail
}

=======

My definition of local delivery on Debian is:

dnl -f $g -- sender
dnl -d $u -- destination user account name
dnl -m $h -- mailbox to deliver to (+detail part of address)
dnl -n    -- don't create new mailbox
dnl -e    -- exit code rather DSN
FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/etc/mail/smrsh/dovecot-deliver', 
`/etc/mail/smrsh/dovecot-deliver -e -f $g -d $u')dnl

sendmail invokes deliver already as the system user, no setuid necessary.

regards,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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