Managesieve problem

[Ervin Hegedüs]

Hi John,

On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 04:44:44PM +0100, John wrote:
> 
> On 2/3/19 2:09 PM, Hegedüs Ervin wrote:
> >Hi John,
> >
> >On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 09:56:38AM +0100, John Fawcett wrote:
> >>On 01/02/2019 13:39, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> >>>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).
> >>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.
> >sorry, you're right, I forgot it :(
> >
> ># 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> ># OS: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64  ext4

thanks for your detailed message,
 
> Checking further, the managesieve-login process is chrooted by default.

yes, I read it - but is there any way (and meaning) to configure
it for not-chroot?

> I
> wonder if it can then read /etc/group. Are you using mail_privileged_group
> because of the permissions on your mail storage directories would not
> otherwise allow them to be accessed?

yes... I guess :)

> If not you could try to just set
> mail_privileged_group to blank and restart dovecot.

I leave it blank, restarted Dovecot, and now it works as well.

Thanks again for your help.


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