I have postfix setup and running. Everything seems good other than the directory permission errors. In the past i accidentally ran chown -R apache /
which as you can imagine broke a crazy amount of stuff. Im trying to send an email to a user account called dan. All mail is setup to go to home/user/Maildir
This is the error i get in the log
Jun 10 23:28:51 vps12345 postfix/local[27188]: 4BA06700701: to=dan@domain.com, relay=local, delay=0.12, delays=0.09/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (maildir delivery failed: create maildir file /home/dan/Maildir/tmp/1433971731.P27188.vps12345.ovh.net: Permission denied)
I have made sure the directories all exist and i have given them all permission of 777, but no joy. I suspect the ownership might be the issue since root owns everything.
My main issue is i dont know what directories i need to set the permissions correctly for in order to be able to make this work.
In case its needed here is my postfix config
myhostname = mail.domain.com
mydomain = domain.com
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain, mail.$mydomain
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, ipv4, ipv6
relay_domains =
home_mailbox = Maildir/
Im running centos 6.
/home/AAA
directory should be owned by the user AAA instead of root – masegaloeh Jun 10 '15 at 21:46