[ILUG] Re: maildrop problem

[Deim Agoston]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Wietse Venema <wietse at porcupine.org> wrote:
> > maildrop has setgid with the group mail and owned by the root. The MTA
> > is postfix (of course). Postfix log tells me that the status is deferred and
> > it's a temporary failure, Command output /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to create
> > dot-lock. So I think the problem is that the maildrop runs as mail user (
> maildrop runs as the recipient user and as group mail. Apparently,
> neither of the two has DIRECTORY write permission where it wants
> to create a filename.lock file.
But it wants to create the lock file in $HOME, doesn't it?
Bye,
Ago