Hello, It just took me some time to dig into an issue I had with courier on Gentoo.
The problem was that certain executables like courieresmtpd were not installed with the correct user/group settings. I found that this line was the cause of the problem: INSTALL=@INSTALL@ `test ! -w /etc || echo -o @mailuser@ -g @mailgroup@` (in ./courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.am) This tests if there's write access to /etc and decides that it can chown then. However, the Gentoo sandbox system, although running with root permissions, prevents write access to /tmp. So the correct way should be another test for root, e.g. test `id -u` != 0 I've prepared a patch. This is for both Makefile.in and Makefile.am to avoid the need for autotools, however the first one gets generated automatically, only the second one probably needs to be applied to courier. Please note however that this fixes the issue ONLY for module.esmtp, although it seems to be prevalent all over the couriere Makefile.am files. I wanted first to discuss if this is the correct approach to fix it. If you're okay with that, I'll send you further patches for the others. -- Hanno Böck mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 http://www.hboeck.de/
diff -u courier-0.68.1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.am courier-0.68.1-1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.am
--- courier-0.68.1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.am 2011-04-04 15:01:20.000000000 +0200
+++ courier-0.68.1-1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.am 2012-06-07 13:53:12.846012841 +0200
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
touch $@
module_PROGRAMS=courieresmtp courieresmtpd addcr
-INSTALL=@INSTALL@ `test ! -w /etc || echo -o @mailuser@ -g @mailgroup@`
+INSTALL=@INSTALL@ `test `id -u` != 0 || echo -o @mailuser@ -g @mailgroup@`
INSTALL_PROGRAM=${INSTALL} -m 550
EXTRA_DIST=courier.config staticlist.c esmtp.authpam.dist esmtpd.cnf.gnutls
diff -u courier-0.68.1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.in courier-0.68.1-1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.in
--- courier-0.68.1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.in 2011-11-13 02:50:30.000000000 +0100
+++ courier-0.68.1-1/courier/module.esmtp/Makefile.in 2012-06-07 13:52:51.098284711 +0200
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
EXEEXT = @EXEEXT@
FGREP = @FGREP@
GREP = @GREP@
-INSTALL = @INSTALL@ `test ! -w /etc || echo -o @mailuser@ -g @mailgroup@`
+INSTALL = @INSTALL@ `test \`id -u\` != 0 || echo -o @mailuser@ -g @mailgroup@`
INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL} -m 550
INSTALL_SCRIPT = @INSTALL_SCRIPT@
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