Please provide some logs from dbmail-lmtpd so we can get an idea why dbmail is hanging up. Exim logs don't tell us much.
Lasantha Marian wrote: > Dear Paul/Aaron, > > Some additional information that I missed last time and thought would be > useful is, I ran previous setups on a Ubuntu 6.10-server and now running > on Ubuntu 7.04-server. > > Any help on this is highly appreciated, please. > > Best regards. > > Lasantha. > > *-------- Original Message --------* > *Subject: * What should be the EFFECTIVE_USER and it's privileges ? > *Date: * Wed, 23/May/2007 8:39:12 PM +0550 > *From: * Lasantha Marian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To: * DBMail mailinglist <[email protected]> > > >> Dear Paul/Aron, >> >> I am testing DBMail 2.2.5-rc3. My environment is DBMail >> 2.2.5-rc3/PostgreSQL 8.2.4/Exim 4.67/MailScanner 4.59.4. >> >> I have faced the following situation with both DBMail 2.2.4 and >> 2.2.5-rc2 too. >> >> When Exim tries to deliver a message to dbmail-lmtpd it refuses to >> accept the message giving these errors when "EFFECTIVE_USER = nobody", >> which is the recommended in DBMail documentation. >> >> May 23 09:39:55 europa exim[29651]: 1Hqr2T-0007gU-TX == >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dbmailuser T=dbmail_lmtp_delivery defer (-53): >> retry time not reached for any host >> >> May 23 10:13:15 europa exim[29924]: 1HqraQ-0007mZ-SP == >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dbmailuser T=dbmail_lmtp_delivery defer (-18): >> Remote host 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1] closed connection in response to end >> of data >> >> But messages get delivered immediately without any errors if the same is >> set to "EFFECTIVE_USER = root", which I do not think is aligning with >> any good security practices. >> >> Could somebody shed light on this ? As to why this is happening. Am I >> doing something wrong in DBMail setup ? >> >> Thanks and best regards, >> >> Lasantha. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
