> On Friday 17 October 2003 10:24, Pascal Loic Gienger wrote: >> Zitat von [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> > Hai, >> > I checked and indeed permissions are set that way, but >> > there seems to be different opinions on how to configure postfix. >> >> Add postfix to your cyrus group (which has the cyrus user). >> This should do it.
This config usually works fine: users: mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin cyrus:x:76:12:Cyrus IMAP Server:/var/lib/imap:/bin/bash postfix:x:89:89:Postfix MTA:/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin groups: mail:x:12:mail,postfix postdrop:x:90: postfix:x:89: > > According to : > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/install-configure.html > --------------------- > One thing you need to watch out for is the UID and GID of the Postfix > software. As it states in the Postfix "INSTALL" document, you must create > a > new account that does not share its UID and GID with any other user > account. > This is for security reasons. If you installed Postfix with a GID of > "mail", > you will need to select a different GID for Cyrus. See the Cyrus configure > options "--with-cyrus-user" and "--with-cyrus-group". (This was more > crucial > when the use of Cyrus' "deliver" was more prevalent, but it is still a > good > idea to follow this policy.) > -------------------- > I did just that, give another GID to postfix, different from cyrus. Now > I followed your advise and gave postfix the GID of cyrus and suddenly > a lot of anomalies have disappeared but sending mail is no longer > an option: > --- > Oct 17 13:07:39 aardappel postfix/pipe[13001]: fatal: request to use mail > system owner group id 12 > -- > but... changing > mailbox_transport = cyrus > to > mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/imap/socket/lmtp > in main.cf postfix takes care of that last little bug. > Thanx , I think I now have a fully working basic setup. > Tha last remaining issue is the creation of folders > by users. I use thunderbird as a test mail-client, configured > to use imap. I can send & receive mail without problems, but > when I try to create a new folder in my top-level folder I get > an error that I don't have permission to do so, but when I create > an extra folder in e.g. the Inbox from the top-level directory > it's OK. Suppose that's the way things are set up in cyrus . > > Thanks ,Wim Bakker > > > This e-mail was scanned by RAV Antivirus! > >
