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

[FreeBSD]

Yeah, that was the first thing I checked to make sure of, after scouring
through horde.org's maillist archives.

drwx------  18 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 20:24 active/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:42 bounce/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:42 corrupt/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:42 defer/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:42 deferred/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:42 flush/
drwx------  18 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 21:48 incoming/
drwx-wx--T   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:47 maildrop/
drwxr-xr-x   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 16:10 pid/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 08:38 private/
drwxr-xr-x   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 08:38 public/
drwx------   2 postfix  wheel  - 512 Sep 19 05:42 saved/

I will try emailing the postfix mailing list.


On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jon Parise wrote:

> 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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