[sclug] Problem with postfix & maildrop

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

I'm having some trouble with my postfix & maildrop configuration. Receiving 
and delivering mail works OK, but the system is building up a growing list of 
deferred messages of the kind:

$ postqueue -p
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
A31E5202A5     1810 Thu Jun  2 23:26:02  root at acrewoods.net
(temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to change to 
home directory.)
                                         root at acrewoods.net

I've searched for this problem, and the only solution I found was to give the 
maildrop binary suid permissions, which I did to no avail:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/maildrop
-r-sr-sr-x  1 root mail 149032 Aug 21  2004 /usr/bin/maildrop

Both postfix and maildrop run as a user in the group "mail". I've tried all 
kinds of combinations of permissions, with no luck. Can anyone suggest how I 
can track down and solve this?

Kind regards,
Tom

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