Hi Jens, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > > Would it be /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp ? > Yep, it would be it. > > But please note that the postfix smtpd under Debian (and probably > Ubuntu as well) runs in a chroot environment. You can see this by > looking in your /etc/postfix/master.cf file, look at the line with > smtp in the beginning and look in the right column for the chroot. > Which one that is should be documented in the top of the file. $ cat /etc/postfix/master.cf | grep smtp smtp inet n - - - - smtpd smtp unix - - - - - smtp relay unix - - - - - smtp # -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5 bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient * end * There are only 2 lines there with smtp in the beginning. > If the smtpd runs in a chroot environment, it will expect the lmtp > socket relative to the chroot path, normally /var/spool/postfix, so > the correct complete path for the socket would be > /var/spool/postfix/var/run/cyrus/socket/notify ;) This created a lot > of headache for me when configuring sasl, until I figured it out. $ sudo nano /etc/cyrus.conf change both lines. changing; lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp" prefork=0 maxchild=20 as; lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp" prefork=0 maxchild=20 changing; notify cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/run/cyrus/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1 as; notify cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/cyrus/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1 Still can't receive mails. $ sudo ls -la /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus Password: total 20 drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 2008-06-09 16:35 . drwx------ 3 cyrus mail 4096 2008-06-09 16:35 .. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4 2008-06-09 16:35 cyrus.cache -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 158 2008-06-09 16:35 cyrus.header -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 76 2008-06-09 16:35 cyrus.index * end * $ tail /var/log/mail.log Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4952]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001 Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4952]: archiving database file: /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4952]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001 Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4952]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/master[4948]: process 4952 exited, status 0 Jun 10 00:36:30 lampserver postfix/smtpd[4955]: connect from ti-out-0910.google.com[209.85.142.187] Jun 10 00:36:30 lampserver postfix/smtpd[4955]: D21EA87820E: client=ti-out-0910.google.com[209.85.142.187] Jun 10 00:36:30 lampserver postfix/cleanup[4956]: D21EA87820E: message-id=<ca46cd50806090936n8e4c831yc70288dbe5bc865b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jun 10 00:36:30 lampserver postfix/qmgr[4188]: D21EA87820E: from=<satimisliu@xxxxxxxxx>, size=1842, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 10 00:36:30 lampserver postfix/lmtp[4958]: D21EA87820E: to=<satimiscyrus@xxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (connect to /var/run/lmtp[/var/run/lmtp]: No such file or directory) * end * $ tail /var/log/mail.warn Jun 6 18:47:50 lampserver cyrus/master[3881]: WARNING: cannot find executable for service 'nntp' -- ignored Jun 9 18:15:12 lampserver cyrus/imap[4675]: idle for too long, closing connection Jun 9 23:48:17 lampserver cyrus/master[4594]: unable to create notify listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:08:08 lampserver cyrus/master[4745]: unable to create lmtpunix listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:08:08 lampserver cyrus/master[4745]: unable to create notify listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:12:38 lampserver cyrus/master[4805]: unable to create lmtpunix listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:12:39 lampserver cyrus/master[4805]: unable to create notify listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:32:46 lampserver cyrus/master[4902]: unable to create notify listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/master[4948]: unable to create lmtpunix listener socket: No such file or directory Jun 10 00:35:41 lampserver cyrus/master[4948]: unable to create notify listener socket: No such file or directory * end * B.R. Stephen Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html