mail store and database on other partition

[isaac]

I’m trying to change the location of the default mail store and mail database to folders on a separate partition.

If I go to Server Admin > Mail > Advanced > Database and change ‘Database location’ and ‘Mail store location’ to the folders I want to use on /Volumes/mail, then no mail gets delivered:

When restarting the server after making this change, this appears in system.log:

… master[…]: unable to create lmtpunix listener socket: Invalid argument
… deliver[…]: connect(/Volumes/mail/database/socket/lmtp) failed: Connection refused

And this is in mail.log when trying to send a message:

… to=<...>, relay=cyrus, delay=0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: couldn’t connect to lmtpd: Connection refused_ 421 4.3.0 deliver: couldn’t connect to lmtpd_ )

It seems to be something to do with the ability to create or access a socket for lmtp…

I do have permissions enabled on the volume, and all the relevant folders are owned and writable by cyrusimap:mail

There is a socket at /Volumes/mail/database/socket/lmtp (owned by system:mail and world read/writable).

Anybody know what to do?

[isaac]

nope, that didn’t do it. do I need to run the command as a certain user?

[isaac]

hrm, nope. I tried it both as root and cyrusimap. Also tried making it so the two folders were not at the top level of the volume (inside a folder owned by cyrusimap:mail).

I still got the same errors in the log, so it must be something else.

(note, before trying mkimap, it created — by itself — what looked like the same structures as exist in the standard locations. It did it either when I saved the changes or when restarting mail service).

weird, eh?

This is 10.4.4, BTW. I freshly installed 10.4.3, and then updated to 10.4.4 before adding users or doing anything more than a minimal config.

Thank you for helping, though! If you have more ideas, please keep ’em coming.

I’ll check back here Wednesday.

[maccanada]

Did you run the upgradedb script as listed in the migration pdf?
sudo -u cyrusimap /System/Library/ServerSetup/SetupExtras/upgradedb

~Ian

[isaac]

[QUOTE BY= maccanada] Did you run the upgradedb script as listed in the migration pdf?
sudo -u cyrusimap /System/Library/ServerSetup/SetupExtras/upgradedb

~Ian[/QUOTE]

Nope, still get the same error.

[isaac]

the 10.4.5 update didn’t fix it.

[JP]

Tried to move both database and strore to other partition too, and ran into the same problems.
The first sign of a problem is that “master” isn;t able to create the lmtpunix listener socket because of an “Invalid argument”. The only argument that changed to lmtpunix in the cyrus.conf is the listen path. So I returned that to the original ‘listen=”/var/imap/socket/lmtp”‘.
This got rid of the “Invalid argument” error, but deliver still tried to connect to the new location, as defaults to {configdirectory}/socket/lmtp, so I added “lmtpsocket: /var/imap/socket/lmtp” to the imapd.conf.

This resolved the error messages, and the mail did get delivered.

The question remains why the new listen path wasn’t accepted. If it’s the use of uppercase, I don’t know how to work around it, as we are stuck with one in “/Volumes”.

[touwtje]

Let me de-anonymize the previous reply

jp

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