On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, upen <upendra.gan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If Postfix delivers the mails, rather than Dovecot LDA, then yes you'll >> need to configure Postfix also to deliver correctly. Maybe it would be >> easier to just switch to Dovecot LDA: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA > > Thanks Timo for quick confirmation and the link for setting up dovecot as LDA. > > I made below changes to postfix's main.cf > > mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda ( verified that's > correct location for file) > > postfix reload > > The changed mail_location as mail_location = maildir:/localdir/mail/%u > > dovecot restart > > /var/log/messages shows, below error, > > dovecot: pop3(username): Error: user username: Initialization failed: > Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: > stat(/localdir/mail/username) failed: Permission denied > (euid=1002(username) egid=10(wheel) missing +x perm: /localdir/mail, > euid is not dir owner) > > Any idea what is going wrong?
Changed permissions on root directories, don't know if this is secure or not but it worked. I see cur, tmp, new and other files created under local storage now. Set permissions as below, #ls -ald /localdir drwxrwxrwx 31 root root 12288 Mar 17 10:48 /localdir/ # ls -ald /localdir/mail drwxrwxrwx 3 dovecot dovecot 4096 Mar 17 10:49 /localdir/mail mkdir /localdir/mail/username chown username:group /localdir/mail/username chmod 700 /localdir/mail/username Do you think it is okay to keep these perms ?
