dovecot - Sep 2006 - Deliver-Problem

Hi,

I installed a Emailserver based on Debian Sarge, exim (4.50-8sarge2) and 
dovecot (1.0.rc2-1bpo1). Delivering Mails with Exim to my Maildir works 
fine. Because I want to filter my messages with Sieve, I tried to 
deliver mails with deliver, but get the following error message (example 
with a testmail and user "Debian-exim", not delivered via Exim):

--8<--
dovecot: 2006-09-19 13:17:23 Error: auth(default):
deliver(username at domain.tld): "2006-09-19 13:17:23 "Fatal:
setgid(1003)
failed: Operation not permitted
--8<--

Here's the relevant part of my configuration file:

--8<--
auth default {
  mechanisms = plain login
  passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf }
  userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf }
  socket listen {
   master {
    path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
    mode = 0660
    user = virtual
    group = virtual
   }
  }
}
--8<--

User "Debian-exim" is in the same group as user "virtual".
Both have
r/w-permissions on /var/run/dovecot/auth-master:

0 srw-rw----  1 virtual virtual 0 2006-09-18 13:58 
/var/run/dovecot/auth-master


Is there anybody who had the same problems and can help me?

Best regards,

   Michael.

PS: Sorry for my horrible english.

Am 19.09.2006 um 13:27 schrieb Michael Schr?der:
> --8<--
> dovecot: 2006-09-19 13:17:23 Error: auth(default):
> deliver(username at domain.tld): "2006-09-19 13:17:23 "Fatal:
setgid
> (1003) failed: Operation not permitted
> --8<--
dpkg-statoveride --update --add root virtual 04755 /usr/lib/dovecot/ 
deliver

(setting deliver setuid root to allow it to perform setgid  
operations) should do the trick.

Maybe there are nicer solutions, but this is the first that comes to  
my mind.


Marcus

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:57:32PM +0200, Marcus Jodorf
wrote:
> dpkg-statoveride --update --add root virtual 04755 /usr/lib/dovecot/ 
> deliver
> 
> (setting deliver setuid root to allow it to perform setgid  
> operations) should do the trick.
Damn, you are great! It works perfectly!


Thanks, Mike.