Scott, do you know why your version of maildrop is so much smaller than mine?

Edit - that's not meant to be a "mine's bigger than your" comment

Bill,

I did comment it out and mail was delivered. So we know where the problem is. The error on maildrop. Any ideas?

Scott

Given the size of your maildrop, I'd try uninstalling it and reinstalling

Bill

Bill,

I installed mine as an rpm. How did you install yours? Are you Fedora Core 6?

I got mine from
[root@streit yum.repos.d]# more enlartenment.repo
[enlartenment]
name=Enlartenment Repository for $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://www.enlartenment.com/packages/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-enlartenment
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1

[enlartenment-sources]
name=Enlartenment Repository for $releasever - Sources
baseurl=http://www.enlartenment.com/packages/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-enlartenment
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1

I run it on an FC5 machine, but installed from source (actually I upgraded yesterday since I noticed it looked a bit old)


I guess you'd just go yum remove maildrop and then yum install maildrop

when you installed from source, what options did you use. That is what I want to try next.

I want to yum remove maildrop.

I want to get out of this security hell, so when I do

./configure [options]

Do you have options to recommend? I am looking for simplicity

Scott

I didn't - straight old

./configure
make
make install

Check where it installs though, because I note that mine was put in /usr/local/bin which means you need to chane the path for postfix (I think that is in main.cf)

Bill,

The problem with maildrop was the rpm. Once I configured and compiled everything started working. There is one issue:

My mail is running the mail filter but ending up in /var/mail/scott. So my Maildir never sees the email. Any ideas?

Here is the result in my mailflter.log

My config is in http://problem.thestreits.com



[scott@streit ~]$ more mailfilter.log
Date: Fri Feb 16 18:57:23 2007
From: scott@appdev.j2ee.raba.com (Scott Streit)
Subj: teaste
File: /var/mail/scott (1039)


Scott

Glad that bit's fixed.

I can't see you logs. My guess is either the spamfilter config (I use amavisd to do my content filtering) or your .mailfilter file.

I'd either try removing spamfilter and see if it delivers properly, or perhaps post your .mailfilter

[scott@streit ~]$ more .mailfilter
Verbose 4
logfile mailfilter.log

if ( /^"Subject:.*SPAM/ )
to Maildir/.Trash



Also, if I remove the .mailfilter I still don't see the mail in my Maildir directories.

Try this

Default=/home/scott/Maildir

Verbose 4
logfile mailfilter.log

if ( /^"Subject:.*SPAM/ )
to "$Default/.Trash/"


It may just be you need the trailing / after .Trash - trailing /'s often indicate Maildirs

Everything seems to boil down to two things. The permissions on /usr/local/bin/maildrop and an entry in the main.cf file. By the way, in /etc/aliases my user is as follows:

scott scott, breitscott@yahoo.com, postmaster

I believe this is correct.

Now the permissions. I have tried many permutations with differing errors.

Right now

[root@streit bin]# pwd
/usr/local/bin
[root@streit bin]# ls -al
total 392
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:02 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20388 Feb 16 17:02 deliverquota
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 10576 Feb 16 17:02 lockmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23724 Feb 16 17:02 mailbot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24216 Feb 16 17:02 maildirmake
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 160820 Feb 16 17:02 maildrop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24240 Feb 16 17:02 makemime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39736 Feb 16 17:02 reformail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61332 Feb 16 17:02 reformime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 spamfilter root 75 Feb 10 16:45 spamfilter


and main.cf of

mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/maildrop -d root


results in a log of

Feb 17 14:29:44 streit postfix/local[23442]: DCBB15A6C3C: to=<root@streit.thestreits.com>, orig_to=<webmaster@breitsolutions.com>, relay=local, delay=188594, delays=188593/0.09/0/1.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/local/bin/maildrop: You are not a trusted user. )


a main.cf of

mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${USER}

and permissions of root:mail and 755 on maildrop result in

results in the same thing as does 755 and owned by postfix and mail group.

Any ideas?

Also,

[root@streit postfix]# ls -al
total 128
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 3 08:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 14 21:23 ..
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 17 14:46 active
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 16 17:04 bounce
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 corrupt
drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 Nov 8 17:42 defer
drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 Nov 8 17:42 deferred
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 14 21:26 flush
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 hold
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 17 14:46 incoming
drwxrwsr-x 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Feb 17 14:24 maildrop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 21:26 pid
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 17 14:13 private
drwxrwsr-x 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Feb 17 14:13 public
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 saved
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 trace
[root@streit postfix]#

Ok now I have everything owned by root

resulting in the following new error:

Feb 17 15:15:23 streit postfix/postdrop[24337]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/944169.24337: Permission denied


permissions are:

[root@streit bin]# ls -al
total 392
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 16 17:02 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20388 Feb 16 17:02 deliverquota
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 10576 Feb 16 17:02 lockmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23724 Feb 16 17:02 mailbot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24216 Feb 16 17:02 maildirmake
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 160820 Feb 16 17:02 maildrop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24240 Feb 16 17:02 makemime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39736 Feb 16 17:02 reformail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61332 Feb 16 17:02 reformime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 spamfilter root 75 Feb 10 16:45 spamfilter


[root@streit postfix]# pwd; ls -al
/var/spool/postfix
total 128
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 3 08:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 14 21:23 ..
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 17 15:17 active
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 16 17:04 bounce
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 corrupt
drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 Nov 8 17:42 defer
drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 Nov 8 17:42 deferred
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 14 21:26 flush
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 hold
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 17 15:17 incoming
drwxrwsr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 15:08 maildrop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 21:26 pid
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 17 15:15 private
drwxrwsr-x 2 postfix mail 4096 Feb 17 15:15 public
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 saved
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Sep 1 12:47 trace


no matter how I setup the maildrop command in /etc/postfix/main.cf either
-d {USER} or -d root

which directory is it referring to for maildrop and what does it need the permissions to be

On the alias front, I can't see the line you specify, but your aliases look OK. Are you running

postalias /etc/aliases

after updates to the aliases file?

The main.cf entry should literally be

mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop -d ${USER}

don't replace {USER} with root

Try setting the ownership of maildrop back to root:mail (check you have a group mail in /etc/groups perhaps)

Then let's see what happens