Permission on /var/mail
I have been following this tutorial [
Step 6 under Dovecot states that the permission on /var/mail should be as follows:
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 6 15:08 /var/mail
but mine comes to this
drwxrwsrwt 3 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 15 09:05 /var/mail
.
How do I trackback and confirm what I may have done wrong?
Thanks for help.
4 Replies
Do yourself a huge favour and use iredmail.
@emestee:
At least under Debian policy (11.6), /var/mail is a standard mail spool location, with correct permissions 2775 root:mail, which is violated by the approach in this tutorial (step 9 changes ownership, and modes are probably changed by one of the packages). This makes it a crappy tutorial.
Do yourself a huge favour and use iredmail.
Hi emestee,
I had a look at Iredmail documentation, installation and configuration seem quite straightforward. However, the comparison page shows that only pro version would provide a capability to create email aliases, whitelisting, blacklisting, Spam/Virus Quarantining, Advanced Domain Management etc. The price tag of $500 per year is something I can't afford.
Cheers.
@emestee:
No, you can do all those things directly in the database or config files which is what you would be doing anyway in a custom setup. The difference is it will save you a lot of time on the installation, it will install stuff you don't know you need (e.g. amavisd, a policy server, master admin override passwords for mailbox migration and archiving, etc), and it will do so correctly. The $500 price tag is just if you want it all managed over the GUI. I haven't encountered something I wouldn't be able to do in principle w/o the paid UI, and I run dozens of mailservers.
Thanks emestee. I will have a closer look.