On 14/10/2020 16:31, Graham Leggett wrote: > Hi all > > I have dovecot-lda set up to run as vmail:vmail, with some sieve scripts in > /var/lib/dovecot/sieve. > > The sieve scripts fail to be found with the following (detailed and very > helpful) error message: > > Oct 14 16:13:33 gatekeeper dovecot[8109]: > lda(minf...@example.com)<8109><ZJ9nMo0Hh1+tHwAAKdTwig>: Error: sieve: file > storage: Failed to stat sieve storage path: > stat(/var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.sieve) failed: Permission denied > (euid=387(vmail) egid=387(vmail) missing +x perm: /var/lib/dovecot, we're not > in group 97(dovecot), dir owned by 97:97 mode=0750) > > In this case, the user vmail is a member of the dovecot group: > > [root@gatekeeper dovecot]# cat /etc/group | grep vmail > mail:x:12:postfix,vmail,opendmarc,opendkim,openarc > dovecot:x:97:vmail > vmail:x:387: > [root@gatekeeper dovecot]# sudo su - vmail > Last login: Wed Oct 14 16:15:48 SAST 2020 on pts/0 > [vmail@gatekeeper ~]$ wc -c /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.svbin > 530 /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.svbin > > Does dovecot-lda do anything odd with respect to group memberships? > > Regards, > Graham > — > Hi Graham
this may not solve the problem, but I thought I'd point out that the error message relates to /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.sieve whereas your test using sudo related to a different file /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.svbin John
