Managesieve problem

[John Fawcett]

On 01/02/2019 13:39, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'ld try to set up the managesieve (for RoundCube) - the sieve is
> works as well with dovecot (I mean my filters works perfectly).
>
> When I would try to connect to managesieve, I got an error, and
> mail.err contains:
>
> dovecot: managesieve(airween at mydomain.hu): Error: user airween at madomain.hu: Couldn't drop privileges: getgrnam(vmail) failed: Permission denied (in mail_privileged_group setting)
>
> Also I got it when I try to connect to port 4190 at localhost
> (with telnet), and send the generated AUTH string (with
> sieve-auth-command.pl).
>
>
> Could anybody helps me to explain this message?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> a.
>
Hi Ervin

it can often help if you give versions of the dovecot and pigeonhole as
well as posting the config (dovecot -n) since people may be able to spot
configuration errors.

It may be an obvious thing, but do you have a vmail group in /etc/group?

John

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