Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008 18:47:27 Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: >> This is part of my getmailrc >> >> [destination] >> type = MDA_external >> path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver >> user = ebal >> group = mail >> arguments = ( '-d', 'ebal' ) >> >> i use getmail + dovecot + sieve + spamassassin [filter getmail] >> at all of my accounts. > > Thank you for your reply! > > I can't seem to be too far off with my configuration, but it's just not > working yet. Your user "ebal" is part of the group "mail", I gather? >
I don't think this matters. he runs deliver as the user who owns the mailbox (see -d argument). > After adding my user to the mail group and modifying my rc-file such that it > looks identical to yours (apart from the usernames of course) I still get the > following errors: > > Delivery error (command deliver 29175 error (127, exec of command deliver > failed (change UID/GID to 1000/8 failed ([Errno 1] Operation not > permitted)))) > > UID 1000 is of course my user. Upon removing the line "group = mail" from the > rc-file I get: > > Delivery error (command deliver 29696 error (75, )) > > Do you know what to make of this? > > Thanks again, > > Andreas