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PMSubject: [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.
