Folks--

I have isolated why maildrop is currently failing with my setup. Here is some background since i still don't quite understand why this doesn't work:

(1) postfix + courier work off of a db in mysql called email. Email has various fields as required between postfix + courier, including home and maildir fields.

(2) home is defined as the base of the virtual host directory area. In my case, for instance, if a virtual user directory is /var/mail/vhosts/inthespace/sunil/Maildir/, then

home = /var/mail/vhosts/ maildir = inthespace/sunil/Maildir/

This not only works perfectly with postfix + courier, but is the way it was explained that it needed to be set up.

Furthermore, /var/mail/vhosts is owned by root.mail, while inthespace/sunil is owned by a specifid uid.gid combination (let's just say 6000.6000) for kicks.

(3) maildrop tries to look at permissions of home, and sees it owned by root. It thus says that 6000 != 0 (obvious) and dies.

My question: I thought that you could simply drop maildrop into a currently working postfix + courier setup and it would work off of the same table entries?

Do I need to create a separate "home" field = /var/mail/vhosts/inthespace/sunil/Maildir/???

Obviously this would show the right permissions for that directory. But it is an odd result that I would require an extra table entry?

I figured that home would normally = real user home directory for purposes of filters, but on my system all my users are virtual.

Any help is greatly, GREATLY appreciated.

Sunil