I moved e-mails from an old server to this one copying the /var/vmail directory. Set the directory permissions: sudo chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail However, I am not getting any new e-mails. I created all the e-mail accounts by hand on the new server. I keep getting this error: postfix/pipe[12612]: CCEB72248B: to=, relay=maildrop, delay=0.16, delays=0.06/0.01/0/0.09, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Invalid permissions on the filter file - world-writable. )
The /var/vmail directory or one of the subdirectories is world writable as the error message states. Change all subdirectories recursively to 700 and /var/vmail to 755: chmod 755 /var/vmail chmod -R 700 /var/vmail/*
Before changing the DNS settings and using the new server is there any way I can check to see if the server really is accepting new e-mails? I changed the DNS settings last night and waited for them to propagate and had to change them back when I got no e-mails going through.
Login to webmail on the server and send yourself a email to the same account that you used to login with webmail.
I even tried creating an new account that hasn't been transferred over and even sending an e-mail to myself did not work.
Aug 11 07:02:56 fs2 pipe[13141]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:02:56 fs2 pipe[13143]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:02:56 fs2 pipe[13144]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:02:57 fs2 pipe[13145]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:07:14 fs2 pipe[13253]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:07:14 fs2 pipe[13258]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:07:14 fs2 pipe[13260]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:07:56 fs2 pipe[13262]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:12:56 fs2 pipe[13380]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:12:56 fs2 pipe[13383]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:12:56 fs2 pipe[13385]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:12:56 fs2 pipe[13386]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:12:57 fs2 pipe[13390]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:12:59 fs2 pipe[13398]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:17:56 fs2 pipe[13485]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied Aug 11 07:19:24 fs2 pipe[13536]: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/bin/maildrop: Permission denied
So finally I was able to figure out the problem. Here is what I did step by step in case anybody is interested. chmod -R 755 /var/vmail chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail chmod 755 /usr/bin/maildrop chown vmail:vmail /usr/bin/maildrop Don't know how or why the permissions on the maildrop directory got messed up....
