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From: Sean Cook <scook@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] postfix -auto create vmail maildirs
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:35
Message-Id: 44241958.8060007@kinex.net
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-server] postfix -auto create vmail maildirs by Jean Blignaut
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4 make sure your entire spool is owned by the virtual user....
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6 chown -R vmail: /var/mail/vhosts/
7
8 and that uid and gid are set in the main.cf
9 # id vmail
10 uid=1000(vmail) gid=1000(vmail) groups=1000(vmail)
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12 /etc/postfix/main.cf
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14 virtual_minimum_uid = 1000
15 virtual_uid_maps = static:1000
16 virtual_gid_maps = static:1000
17
18 Jean Blignaut wrote:
19
20 > Something about my permissions must be messed up I get this error:
21 >
22 > Mar 24 16:56:09 [postfix/virtual] warning: maildir access problem
23 > for UID/GID=1001/1001: create
24 > /var/mail/vhosts/somedom.com/sales/.maildir/tmp/1143212169.P19214.mail.e
25 > talkbox.co.za: Permission denied Mar 24 16:56:09 [postfix/virtual]
26 > warning: perhaps you need to create the maildirs in advance
27 >
28 > -----Original Message----- From: Sean Cook [mailto:scook@×××××.net]
29 > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 5:19 PM To:
30 > gentoo-server@l.g.o Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] postfix
31 > -auto create vmail maildirs
32 >
33
34 > Postfix will create it for you provided your delivery mechanism
35 > isn't maildrop.
36 >
37 > virtual_create_maildirsize = yes virtual_transport = virtual
38 >
39 > if virtual_transport = maildrop
40 >
41 > you loose the ability to create the maildirs on the fly.
42 >
43 > Sean
44 >
45 > Jean Blignaut wrote:
46 >
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58 >> Am I missing some thing in my con fig or does postfix not have
59 >> the same ability exim does to create a maildir as long as your db
60 >> says the user is valid?
61 >
62 >
63 >
64 >> Let me rephrase that: do you always need to create the maildir by
65 >> hand or is it possible to have postfix (or some thing else
66 >> create it for you as soon as you add the new entry in your db)
67 >
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