Re: Cyrus Imap - Postfix - lmtp or pipe ? And why ? And How ?

[Chris Scott]

Bryntez wrote:

Thanks for the advisory.

I was trying to change from "pipe" to "lmtp" earlier today
but I was getting "permission denied" in the maillog.

So my next question is:
What permissions has to be set to get this to work ?

<snip>

/etc/postfix/main.cf
mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/home/mailusers/imap/socket/lmtp

the lmtp socket itself, has "root.root" permissions.
imap belongs to "cyrus.mail"
postfix belongs to "postfix.postdrop"
postfix owner = postfix

The cyrus and postfix users need access to /var/imap/socket/lmtp. You could create a group and add both those users to it and do a chgrp on the socket to that group and it should work.

Hope this helps,
Chris Scott