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Bad, bad mailserver! (redux)

As a follow up to my initial post on the subject, an additional problem that seems to be affecting people with OS X and Cyrus pertains to new log files. Apparently Cyrus roll’s its log file when it exceeds 10MB. For some people the ownership of the new log file is incorrect (root/wheel instead of cyrus/mail) and it causes Cyrus to fail.

This Apple forum thread offers a fix by Matthias Stegner. He suggests creating a bunch of log files in advance:

touch log.0000000002
...
touch log.0000000099
touch log.0000000100
chown cyrus:mail *

This might buy you some time until Apple has posted a fix