Bug#494746: cyrus-imapd-2.2: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: Permission, denied

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Regardless which is safest, the cyrus-imapd package needs to set it
> up correctly in order for cyrus and postfix to interoperate.

[...]

> That would work, but then the cyrus-imapd (or other suitable cyrus
> package) should do this, not me and all other users that want to use
> postfix and cyrus imap together.

Please understand that Cyrus IMAP is not a simple, plug-and-play system.
And it is not geared towards a single-user single-box install, either.

The local admin (i.e. you) is supposed to configure it correctly for his
needs.

If you'd like us to improve the documentation shipped with the package,
please give us suggestions.

As for taking steps to automatically let Exim and Postfix talk to the
LMTP socket, I am not sure if it is a good idea.  Not only that is
utterly pointless as far as auto-setup goes, as you still need to do a
lot of stuff to get Cyrus to accept mail from postfix/Exim, it is also
something that wouldn't be useful in the more typical Cyrus setup, where
clustering is involved (and the MTA is not in the same box).

And adding a new system group on package install, adding exim and
postfix users to it, requesting that the same be done on the postfix and
exim packages... it is not something we will do unless there is a clear
and strong advantage to the package usability.  I am not convinced of
that.

Let's see what the other Cyrus maintainers think of this issue.

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  Henrique Holschuh