Postfix and Maildir on Fedora Core 5

jeffludwig · #1 25th August 2006, 07:06 PM

Hi everyone....

This was driving me crazy: I removed sendmail on a FC5 install and wanted to move over to postfix instead. I was trying to get Maildir format mailboxes working properly but it kept complaining about permissions:

Aug 25 13:51:02 xxx postfix/local[32487]: warning: maildir access problem for UID/GID=1001/1001: create /home/xxx/Maildir/tmp/1156528262.P32487.xxx: Permission denied
Aug 25 13:51:02 xxx postfix/local[32487]: warning: perhaps you need to create the maildirs in advance

neither procmail or postfix could write to $HOME in either mbox or maildir format. It was however devilering properly to /var/spool/mail in mbox format.

Then on a hunch I tried disabling SELinux... problem solved! I hope this can save others some time. SELinux has so far been nothing but a headache for me, it didn't play nice with PXE-booting either.

Jeff

fnmblot · #2 25th August 2006, 08:02 PM

SELinux has been nothing but a headache for me too! I always shut that off right in the installation. The way I figure, I have a firewall on my modem and another on my router. I don't need SELinux.

fnmblot