Patrick O'Reilly writes:

Any ideas?

I used portupgrade on FreeBSD to move from 0.42 to 0.44, and since then I
get errors like this in the maillog:

Dec 15 11:18:49 panther courieresmtpd: started,ip=[209.212.102.154]
Dec 15 11:18:49 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied
Dec 15 11:18:49 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied
Dec 15 11:18:53 panther courieresmtpd: started,ip=[196.39.31.25]
Dec 15 11:18:53 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied
Dec 15 11:18:53 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied

I haven't been able to figure out what permission is being denied...

I have noticed that many of the courier processes are now running as user
mailnull, even though I specify a user called courier in the esmtpd file.
In desparation I even set mailnull and courier to the same userid, but no
dice.

HHH EEE LLL PPP !!!

Your upgrade got screwed up. You compiled the new version of Courier specifying a different userid to run Courier as. As such, the permissions of configuration files, and many other files, are now completely wrong.

You'll need to uninstall Courier completely, then do a new install.


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