Am Mo, den 06.12.2004 schrieb Paul Michael Reilly um 7:19:
Keep care to preserve the UIDs/GIDs of your system user accounts. Else you will have to change ownerships by hand on the spool mboxes. Yes, following all advices from the dovecot Wiki will bring you safe from point A to point B.
I think something has changed to tighten the constraints on UID values below 500. I have accounts with UIDs below 500 who are not receiving mail whereas others are. Can you point me at some explanation for this behavior and recommended remedies?
-pmr
Paul,
I am not sure whether I understand you correctly. You say your system has created user accounts with UID below 500? I guess you created user account in that UID area, right? Correct me if I am wrong. And you are saying that you have accounts which should be able to receive mail while they don't? Maybe I understand you better if you rephrase a bit what you mean and give some real world examples from your host(s).
My apologies for a red herring (aka wild goose chase). I found out what was really wrong. FWIW, a group of low numbered (UID) users all had TMDA set up and after the re-install, the TMDA setup tried to run TMDA but it was not installed so the delivery failed. The logging information was rather sparse so it took me a while to figure out what was happening. It appeared as though only users with UID values below 500 were the only ones not getting mail. This was pure coincidence, as it turns out.
No I'm ready to integrate mimedefang. Do you have a URL handy that I can use as a guide for my sendmail/procmailrc configuration?
Thanks,
-pmr
