Re: [courier-users] maildrop under user daemon

[Tim Hunter]

---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: [courier-users] maildrop under user daemon > Greetings to all! > > I have been trying to get the courier suite working for the past two > weeks with modest results. I did some serious RTFM, googled a lot, > read this archives but I am hopelessly stuck and in need of your > help.   > > I am using the Debian Woody courier "out of the box" installed with > apt-get using virtual users with maildirs autheticated by mysql. > After three installations from scratch (Debian and all) I managed to > get everything to work except maildrop which is the essential link > for spam and virus filtering. Courier now accepts mails and delivers > them to the correct maildirs. Only it does not seem to trigger > maildrop although in /etc/courier/courierd DEFAULTDELIERY="| > /usr/bin/maildrop" is set. No logging or any other sign of life from > the /etc/courier/maildroprc file.        My first guess is that you have MAIL set in mysql, this will overwrite defaultdelivery > > If I run maildrop as root from the command line (# cat some_mail_file > | maildrop V5) it works like a charm and delivers the mail from > some_mail_file into $HOME/maildir/new. But apt-get installs courier > under user daemon. So when I "# su - daemon" and try the same I get > following error: "maildrop: Invalid home directory permissions - > world writable" (which is not true for "$ echo $HOME" gives /usr/sbin > and this has following permissions: drwxr-xr-x but who is going to > argue with an error message).       courier first switches to the uid/gid for the user before it delivers > > I suspect that courier first tries to deliver using the maildrop pipe > and being daemon fails. So it reverts to its internal delivery > mechanism and delivers the mail successfully. But then probably I am > wrong. I am new to courier, new to mail servers, new to the UNIX > paradigma. I don't know how to make apt-get install courier under the > user courier or change this setting after installation. Generally I > have no idea what else to try.      dont > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. Please help. logs and a sample user would be greatly helpful > > michael einem.