Re: [maildropl] Unable to create a dot-lock at ...

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

sim085 writes:

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> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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>> Because the userid and the groupid that maildrop is running as does not
>> have 
>> the permission to create files in the given directory.
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> First of all thank you for your answer. In the postfix master.cf file I set
> the user equal to virtual, and this user does have permission on
> /var/spool/mail/virtual/
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> Is maildrop using some other user which I do not know. In that case how can
> I know what user is maildrop using?

If maildrop is invoked by root, or maildrop's binary is setuid root, 
maildrop will use the userid and the groupid specified by courier-authlib. 
If maildrop is not invoked with root privileges, it will have to run using 
whatever userid or groupid it was started as, of course.