Thus spake Sam Varshavchik on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:45:39PM CDT > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > >Outside of changing the spec'd gid of the mailman user in /etc/passwd, is > >there any way to instruct courier to use an alternate gid when delivering > >mail to a specific account? I would think that the gid spec'd in the > >authentication database should do this, but apparently it doesn't, even > >though the proper delivery directory is pulled from this database. > > It should. The uid and gid of the local mail delivery process is set from > the authentication database. There is no other place it could possibly > come from.
OK, the issue was that mailman, when generating VERPified envelope sender address for monthly password mailouts uses the _fully qualified domain name_ of the list server host, e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Courier's authentication database had an entry for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but not one for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Adding an appropriate entry in the auth db for the latter solved the problem. This wasn't a courier problem, nor was it a mailman problem. Just one of those little glitches that keep sysadmin work from becoming boring :-) -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | | ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
