multiple LMTP unix sockets: any problems?

2005-05-22 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Should I expect any problems with multiple unix LMTP sockets? On my system packages cyrus-imap makes LMTP socket available to mail group. I created second unix LMTP socket available to lmtp group to allow *SOME* users submit directly via LMTP. I use "hackish" perl script to make Net::SMTP wor

SUMMARY: LMTP Unix Sockets

2001-08-27 Thread Scott Adkins
Okay, we were originally having problems with the deliver program connecting to LMTP via UNIX file sockets. We thought about going to TCP sockets and use deliver, but from what I saw in the source code, it may be that deliver only support UNIX file sockets. This meant that we needed to dump deli

Re: LMTP unix sockets

2001-08-26 Thread Scott Adkins
--On Sunday, August 26, 2001 3:55 PM -0400 Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this correspond to /usr/sbin/sendmail being invoked by a user > process (not from a network I/O message)? Sendmail is still invoked as root and runs that way. However, deliver runs as user cyrus an

Re: LMTP unix sockets

2001-08-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Does this correspond to /usr/sbin/sendmail being invoked by a user process (not from a network I/O message)? This is a pretty weird thing to be happening, and I don't think that this message can be caused by a listen queue overflow. I'd guess some process is invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail not as ro

LMTP unix sockets

2001-08-26 Thread Scott Adkins
We are seeing a lot of messages getting deferred in our sendmail logs when deliver is executed. Basically, deliver is exitting with EX_TEMPFAIL. Looking at the cyrus logs, I can correlate most of those failures to the following message: deliver: connect(/var/imap/socket/lmtp) failed: Permission