Volker, thanks for all your help. I got everything running smoothly. For courier-imap, I set the uid and gid in the authmysqlrc file. But I needed to set the uid and gid in both postfix and courier...so your instructions helped greatly. Thanks a lot!
Pat On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:36:19 +0100, Volker Kindermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Pat, > > Pat Maddox wrote: > > By the way, the problem appears to be solely permissions-based. When > > I've got normal-looking permissions on /var/mail, postfix gives that > > error, "cannot create file." Courier-IMAP says, "imapd: chdir > > javaspot.net/pergesu: No such file or directory" chmod 777 /var/mail > > and they both work fine. But that's of course not the permissions I > > want on it. > > I have postfix with virtual Maildirs and courier imap set up, too. > > Here's the relevant part of my main.cf: > > virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail > virtual_uid_maps = static:600 > virtual_gid_maps = static:600 > > The directory /home/vmail is owned by the vmail user (id 600). With the > virtual_uid_maps setting postfix uses this user for writing to the > directories. > > In courier, you are also able to define this user: > > /usr/local/courier-imap/sbin/userdb "<domain>/<user>@<domain>" set > home=/home/vmail mail=/home/vmail/<domain>/<user> uid=600 gid=600 > > With these settings everything works well. > > > -volker > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
