I have been using qmail on OpenBSD for many years, but it is not compatible with newer versions of OpenBSD. So I am trying both newer ports of qmail on Linux and smtpd plus dovecot on OpenBSD.
Mail is delivered to Maildir by default, but I like to also deliver to an mbox to keep as a backup archive just in case I lose some in the mail clients. For smtpd I assumed that adding archie: archie, /var/mail/archie to the aliases file it would be delivered to both locations, but I get a delayed error message [email protected]: "mail.mboxfile: Permission denied" The target mbox exists: -rw------- 1 archie archie 0 Sep 4 21:36 archie My first attempt was using the same mbox file I had used for qmail: /home/archie/Mailbox and I got the same error, but then I thought that matching the properties of the original mail to root might help. But looking at the maillog I see that the Maildir delivery was by the user archie, while the mbox attempts were by the user _smtpd. Making an mbox writable by _smtpd would be a quick solution, but what would be the proper way to do this?
