On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:49:56 +0800
Niklas Lemcke - ??? <compul at coletteral.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a Mailserver, and recently also a Mailinglist.
>
> I'm sporting
> # dovecot --version
> 2.1.7
> on a debian stable machine with postfix & mailman. Everything works
> fine, except that no archive is being created (here an excerpt from my
> log):
>
>
> Jul 2 15:29:39 blade01 postfix/qmgr[5217]: B30BCE1F52:
> from=<list at mail.myserver.com>, size=802, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>
> Jul 2 15:29:39 blade01 dovecot: lda(list): Error: user list:
> Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location
> setting failed: mkdir(/var/mail/vmail//list/mail) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=38(list) egid=38(list) missing +w perm: /var/mail/vmail/,
> we're not in group 5000(vmail), dir owned by 5000:5000 mode=0775)
>
> Jul 2 15:29:39 blade01 dovecot: lda(list): Fatal: Invalid user
> settings. Refer to server log for more information.
>
> Jul 2 15:29:39 blade01 postfix/local[2778]: B30BCE1F52:
> to=<list at mail.myserver.com>, orig_to=<list>, relay=local,
delay=12578,
> delays=12578/0.16/0/0.17, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)
>
>
> Now since dovecot is running as user vmail (the other mail folders are
> all well managed and accessed by it, and all owned by vmail:vmail) I
> thought it might be saying that the user list is not in group vmail.
> Now:
> $ groups list
> list : list vmail
> and the permissions are 775, but it's still complaining about
"missing
> +w perm". What is it referring to with "we're not in group
5000"?
>
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
Does nobody happen to know what I'm talking about? If I phrased the
question in a poor way, please let me know.
Thank you.
--
Niklas - ???
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