SMTP cannot deliver Mail - lmtp socket connection refused

Here's the output you wanted.....thanks in advance for your help.

1. sudo grep lmtpunix /etc/cyrus.conf

lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/Volumes/Mallard RAID Set 1/Mail/socket/lmtp" prefork=0

2. head -n 5 /etc/imapd.conf

admins: cyrusimap
configdirectory: /Volumes/Mallard RAID Set 1/Mail
partition-default: /Volumes/Mallard RAID Set 1/Mail/Store
unixhierarchysep: yes
altnamespace: yes

3. ls -al /var/imap/socket

total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 _cyrus mail 136 Jan 10 01:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 _cyrus mail 510 Jan 10 01:49 ..
srwxrwxrwx 1 _cyrus mail 0 Jan 10 01:49 idle
srwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 0 Jan 10 01:49 lmtp

4. ls -al /var/imap/

total 24
drwxr-xr-x 15 _cyrus mail 510 Jan 10 01:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 root wheel 1122 Jan 4 00:49 ..
-rw------- 1 _cyrus mail 1064 Jan 12 11:55 .smd.imap.com
-rw------- 1 _cyrus mail 144 Jan 10 01:49 annotations.db
drwxr-xr-x 9 _cyrus mail 306 Jan 10 01:49 db
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 Jan 10 01:49 db.backup1
drwx------ 5 _cyrus mail 170 Jan 10 01:48 db.backup2
drwxr-xr-x 2 _cyrus mail 68 Jan 2 23:50 log
-rw------- 1 _cyrus mail 144 Jan 10 01:49 mailboxes.db
drwxr-xr-x 2 _cyrus mail 68 Jan 2 23:50 msg
drwxr-xr-x 2 _cyrus mail 68 Jan 2 23:50 proc
drwxr-xr-x 2 _cyrus mail 68 Jan 2 23:50 ptclient
drwxr-xr-x 3 _cyrus mail 102 Jan 10 01:49 quota
drwxr-xr-x 4 _cyrus mail 136 Jan 10 01:49 socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 _cyrus mail 68 Jan 2 23:50 sync

Hi David,

The mail system created all the files on the XRAID for me - I didnt copy them from somewhere else.

The Mail dir is set as follows:
Owner _cyrus read and Write
Group mail read only
Others Others read only

The Mail/socket dir is set the same way.

Files in Mail/socket are:
idle Owner _cyrus read and write
Group mail read and write
Others Others read and write

imap-1.lock
Owner _cyrus read and write
Group mail none
Others Others none

lmtp Owner root read and write
Group mail read & write
Others Others read & write

OK I checked for ACL's and there was one, so I have removed it from the root of the Volume all the way down.

That did make a difference; the only errors I get now are in the SMTP log (/var/log/mail.log) but they are still the connection refused type, example below:

Jan 13 13:24:58 mallard postfix/lmtp[54728]: 033658806F: to=<piers@erparchitects.com>, relay=none, delay=228688, delays=228688/0.02/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mallard.greenwicheng.private[/var/imap/socket/lmtp]: Connection refused)

I took your advice and renamed the Raid Volume to remove the spaces, I also reconfigured the Mail directories so that the Database and the Mail Store are in parallel directories per your suggestion.

I went through the 3 files you listed and found the reference to the standard lmtp socket in /etc/postfix/main.cf so I corrected it as follows:

readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
mydomain_fallback = localhost
message sizelimit = 10485760
myhostname = mallard.greenwicheng.private
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mydomain = greenwicheng.private
mailbox sizelimit = 0
enable serveroptions = yes
inet_interfaces = all
smtpd sasl_authenable = yes
smtpd use_pwserver = yes
smtpd recipientrestrictions = permit sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauthdestination,permit
smtpd pw_server_securityoptions = gssapi,cram-md5
relayhost =
#virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/imap/socket/lmtp
virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:/Volumes/MallardRAIDSet1/Mail/Database/socket/lmtp
virtual mailboxdomains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
smtpd clientrestrictions = permit_mynetworks reject rblclient zen.spamhaus.org permit
maps rbldomains =
smtp sasl_passwordmaps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
smtp sasl_authenable = yes
mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,localhost,mail.erparchitects.com

You can see where I corrected the virtual_transport parameter.

I then corrected the setup in Server Admin to reflect the changes to the directories and restarted Mail and i got the following in the SMTP error log:

Jan 14 20:49:13 mallard postfix/error[67008]: CC378880F1: to=<piers@erparchitects.com>, relay=none, delay=337395, delays=337395/0.13/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mallard.greenwicheng.private[/Volumes/MallardRAIDSet1/Mail/Database/socket/lmtp ]: Connection refused)

So I'm getting the exact same error, just on a different lmtp socket.

I decided to use the trash and redo over approach to getting Mail working and although I had to "help" a little with the Virtual Host setting, it all started up and has continued to do so.

Many thanks to all of you you have helped, I have learned a lot through this exercise.