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Re: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp



On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:30:11 +0100, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Christian Christmann wrote:
>> I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages.
>> Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently the
>> error message:
>> server cyrus/deliver[14580]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed:
>> Permission denied
> 
> The user that ran cyrdeliver does not have permissions to access the
> socket.

It seems that procmail is running cyrdeliver.

> BTW, 9 times out of 10 if you are using cyrdeliver you're doing things the
> wrong way.  Read the stuff on /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common, and see if you
> cannot use LMTP instead, it is *much* better.
> 
>> drwxr-x---  2 cyrus mail 4096 Nov 20 02:50 .
>          ^^^
> 	 notice this.

I can't find any setting for my mailserver. My MTA is exim. 
Can I instead set the permission with "chmod 777" to this directory
or would this lead to a security problem?

Chris



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