Thanks for your promptly replay but I done that to no success. I'm still getting the same error, vmail is the user
Mar 5 21:52:34 dagan pipe[4518]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied Mar 5 21:52:34 dagan pipe[4519]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied Mar 5 21:52:34 dagan postfix/pipe[4517]: 66EE378C64: to=<ce...@lugostowing.net>, orig_to=<ce...@dagan.lugostowing.net>, relay=maildrop, delay=7376, delays=7376/0.05/0/0.07, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied ) Mar 5 21:52:34 dagan postfix/pipe[4516]: 5D86878C63: to=<ce...@lugostowing.net>, relay=maildrop, delay=7384, delays=7384/0.06/0/0.09, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied ) Thanks, - Motty -----Original Message----- From: David Touzeau [mailto:da...@touzeau.eu] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:35 PM To: motty cruz Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: virtual domains Hello, I’m having issues with postfix delivering mail to /var/mail/$USER it says permission denied, althougth I gave 755 permission to that dir /var/mail/$USER, Here is my logs Mar 5 21:20:18 dagan postfix/postfix-script[4336]: refreshing the Postfix mail system Mar 5 21:20:18 dagan postfix/master[3467]: reload -- version 2.6.5, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix Mar 5 21:20:18 dagan postfix/pickup[4341]: 53BE378C37: uid=125 from=<r...@lugostowing.net> orig_id=6FE5478C5A Mar 5 21:20:18 dagan postfix/cleanup[4342]: 53BE378C37: message-id=<20100306034930.9aea578...@dagan.lugostowing.net> Mar 5 21:20:18 dagan postfix/pickup[4341]: 5D7CE78C58: uid=125 from=<r...@lugostowing.net> orig_id=7FD7B78C5E Mar 5 21:20:18 dagan postfix/cleanup[4342]: 5D7CE78C58: message-id=<20100306034938.5c8b278...@dagan.lugostowing.net> Mar 5 21:25:18 dagan postfix/qmgr[4340]: 53BE378C37: from=<r...@lugostowing.net>, size=791, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 5 21:25:18 dagan postfix/qmgr[4340]: 5D7CE78C58: from=<r...@lugostowing.net>, size=673, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 5 21:25:18 dagan pipe[4378]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied Mar 5 21:25:18 dagan pipe[4379]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied Mar 5 21:25:18 dagan postfix/pipe[4376]: 53BE378C37: to=<ce...@lugostowing.net>, relay=maildrop, delay=5748, delays=5748/0.06/0/0.06, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied ) Mar 5 21:25:18 dagan postfix/pipe[4377]: 5D7CE78C58: to=<ce...@lugostowing.net>, orig_to=<ce...@dagan.lugostowing.net>, relay=maildrop, delay=5740, delays=5740/0.05/0/0.07, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /var/mail: Permission denied ) dagan# postconf –n (command) dagan# postconf -n biff = no broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/local/sbin config_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix data_directory = /var/db/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 html_directory = /usr/local/share/doc/postfix inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/mail mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/local/man mydomain = lugostowing.net myhostname = dagan.lugostowing.net myorigin = $mydomain newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/local/share/doc/postfix sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = maildrop smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/ virtual_mailbox_domains = /usr/local/etc/postfix/vhosts virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/vmailbox virtual_minimum_uid = 100 virtual_transport = maildrop virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 dagan# and my master.cf maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/var/mail -d ${user} Thanks in advance, -Motty According your line : maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/var/mail -d ${user} you need to provide vmail user access to /var/mail do chown -R vmail /var/mail
