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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