I've built a new mail system with Centos 6.5, and I'm running fetchmail - sendmail - procmail to maildir. I have all of this working at the moment.(I know, postfix was the default, but for lots of other reasons, I switched, and that isn't an issue, I don't think).
I am using dovecot as an imap server. Procmail won't update indexes during email delivery, so I'm having some performance delays and lags when accessing the emails via imap. I would like to use dovecot-lda for delivery, but I get permission denied errors, and I don't know why or where they are coming from.
Here is the .procmailrc and procmail log file response when I try to use dovecot-lda from procmail:
.procmailrc
SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:. # one page suggested MAILDIR has no trailing slash, but DEFAULT should have one MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ # You'd better make sure it exists ' DEFAULT=$MAILDIR LOGFILE="$HOME/procmail_log" LOCKFILE="$HOME/.lockmail" LOCKEXT=.lock :0 * . { LOG="$NL default recipe using copy to .ham_to_learn/ (maildir version) $NL" } :0 c .ham_to_learn/ :0 | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m $DEFAULT
I get this in my log file:
procmail: [27709] Fri Jun 20 14:00:17 2014 default recipe using copy to .ham_to_learn/ (maildir version) procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=.ham_to_learn/new/1403290809.27709_3.helium" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m /home/campbell/Maildir/" procmail: Notified comsat: "campbell@:/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m /home/campbell/Maildir/"
From campbell@accelinc.com Fri Jun 20 14:00:06 2014
Subject: Re: Uruguay gravity model description Folder: /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m /home/campbell/Maildir/ 10470 procmail: Unlocking "/home/campbell/.lockmail" procmail: Executing "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver,-m,/home/campbell/Maildir/" /bin/sh: /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver: Permission denied
ls -laFZ /usr/libexec/ <snip> drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 dovecot/ <snip>
ls -laFZ /usr/libexec/dovecot <snip> lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 deliver -> dovecot-lda* -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:dovecot_deliver_exec_t:s0 dovecot-lda* <snip>
It doesn't matter whether I reference the link file, or dovecot-lda directly, I get the same result.
I'm not getting any AVC (SELinux) entries in my /var/log/audit/audit.log, so it doesn't appear to be unix permissions, or SELinux issues. How can I find out what permissions I need to change?
-chuck
-------------------------------------------------------------- current working (but not indexing) examples below here.
Two versions using procmail for delivery that succeed:
If my .procmailrc file that looks like this:
SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:. # one page suggested MAILDIR has no trailing slash, but DEFAULT should have one MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ # You'd better make sure it exists ' DEFAULT=$MAILDIR LOGFILE="$HOME/procmail_log" LOCKFILE="$HOME/.lockmail" LOCKEXT=.lock :0 * . { LOG="$NL default recipe using copy to .ham_to_learn/ (maildir version) $NL" } :0 c .ham_to_learn/
I get this in my log file:
procmail: [27580] Fri Jun 20 13:37:55 2014 default recipe using copy to .ham_to_learn/ (maildir version) procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=.ham_to_learn/new/1403289475.27580_2.helium" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/campbell/Maildir/new/1403289475.27580_3.helium" procmail: Notified comsat: "campbell@0:/home/campbell/Maildir/new/1403289475.27580_3.helium"
From campbell@accelinc.com Fri Jun 20 13:37:55 2014
Subject: t41 Folder: /home/campbell/Maildir/new/1403289475.27580_3.helium 4299 procmail: Unlocking "/home/campbell/.lockmail"
I get a copy in my inbox and a copy in my ham to learn folder. All appears OK
If I use this recipe:
SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:. # one page suggested MAILDIR has no trailing slash, but DEFAULT should have one MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ # You'd better make sure it exists ' DEFAULT=$MAILDIR LOGFILE="$HOME/procmail_log" LOCKFILE="$HOME/.lockmail" LOCKEXT=.lock :0 * . { LOG="$NL default recipe using copy to .ham_to_learn/ (maildir version) $NL" } :0 c .ham_to_learn/ :0 $DEFAULT
I get this in my log file (same as above, all is well):
procmail: [27646] Fri Jun 20 13:46:25 2014 default recipe using copy to .ham_to_learn/ (maildir version) procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=.ham_to_learn/new/1403289985.27646_2.helium" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/campbell/Maildir/new/1403289985.27646_3.helium" procmail: Notified comsat: "campbell@0:/home/campbell/Maildir/new/1403289985.27646_3.helium"
From campbell@accelinc.com Fri Jun 20 13:45:53 2014
Subject: t43 Folder: /home/campbell/Maildir/new/1403289985.27646_3.helium 4603 procmail: Unlocking "/home/campbell/.lockmail"