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Permission denied: cannot create /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir
by Mark Shearar 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Hi Guys, Tearing my hair out here trying to solve this one. I know it's supposed to be a permissions issue but bear with me first please. variable.php: $mailroot = "/home/exim4u/mail/"; Permissions are set to exim (UID / GID 93) for the above directory: drwxr-xr-x 3 exim exim 4096 Oct 28 13:32 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 28 13:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 exim exim 4096 Oct 31 12:25 mail I create a domain eg domain.tld. System UID and GID are set to 93. Domain mail directory appears as /home/exim4u/mail/ which I believe is correct as it should then create /home/exim4u/mail/domain.tld for the mailboxes. However, it doesn't create the folder and this is what I see in exim/main.log: 2013-10-31 13:35:55 1VbqXb-0004fN-Is == /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir <postmaster(a)domain.tld> R=virtual_domains T=virtual_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: cannot create /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir I've been struggling to figure out why it's not creating /home/exim4u/mail/domain.tld with no success, even manually creating the domain.tld directory under /home/exim4u/mail. I then decided to create /domain.tld off the root since that appears on the surface to be what it's actually trying to do! Guess what, the mail got delivered and the postmaster directory created as /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir. Why is it trying to create the directory off the root and not under the correct mailroot directory?

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Re: [Exim4U] Permission denied: cannot create /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir
by Mark Shearar 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Any ideas anyone?!? I have googled and read the mailing list archives but unable to find anything relevant. Even some pointers as to why exim4u would be creating the directory under / instead of under /home/exim4u/mail/ (which is specified as mailroot)? -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)exim4u.org [mailto:users-bounces(a)exim4u.org] On Behalf Of Mark Shearar Sent: 31 October 2013 13:46 To: users(a)exim4u.org Subject: [Exim4U] Permission denied: cannot create /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir Hi Guys, Tearing my hair out here trying to solve this one. I know it's supposed to be a permissions issue but bear with me first please. variable.php: $mailroot = "/home/exim4u/mail/"; Permissions are set to exim (UID / GID 93) for the above directory: drwxr-xr-x 3 exim exim 4096 Oct 28 13:32 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 28 13:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 exim exim 4096 Oct 31 12:25 mail I create a domain eg domain.tld. System UID and GID are set to 93. Domain mail directory appears as /home/exim4u/mail/ which I believe is correct as it should then create /home/exim4u/mail/domain.tld for the mailboxes. However, it doesn't create the folder and this is what I see in exim/main.log: 2013-10-31 13:35:55 1VbqXb-0004fN-Is == /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir <postmaster(a)domain.tld> R=virtual_domains T=virtual_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: cannot create /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir I've been struggling to figure out why it's not creating /home/exim4u/mail/domain.tld with no success, even manually creating the domain.tld directory under /home/exim4u/mail. I then decided to create /domain.tld off the root since that appears on the surface to be what it's actually trying to do! Guess what, the mail got delivered and the postmaster directory created as /domain.tld/postmaster/Maildir. Why is it trying to create the directory off the root and not under the correct mailroot directory? _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)exim4u.org https://exim4u.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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