[imp] Postfix issues, unable to send email from IMP

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:35:11PM -0600, FreeBSD wrote:

> * FreeBSD 4.4RC system tracking -stable
> * postfix-20010808_3 built from ports
> * cyrus-imapd-2.016_1 built from ports
> * Apache1.3.20+mod_ssl2.8.4 running as user 'www'
> * mod_php4.0.6_4 with latest cvs'd pear dir
> * recently cvs'd horde (HEAD) and IMP (HEAD)

[snip]
 
> postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/599980.87606:
> Permission denied

I've seen this a lot recently.  I think the FreeBSD postfix port
my be at fault, but I haven't really investigated.

If I recall, I had to correct the permissions on
/var/spool/postfix/maildrop.  They should look like this:

drwx-wx--T   2 postfix  maildrop  512 Sep 19 11:49 maildrop

I think the port was incorrectly setting the group.

You'll need to kill any stuck postdrop processes, too.

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