postfix compatability?

[Peter Bates]

Hello there...

Remember, the logs are your friends.

>now i get the following problems when trying to send an email to the
>mailserver

>Mar 24 21:59:44 gateway postfix/pipe[30344]: fatal: get_service_attr:
>unknown username: filter

my master.cf file is as follows :-
# service type  private unpriv  chroot  wakeup  maxproc command + args
#               (yes)   (yes)   (yes)   (never) (50)
#
==========================================================================
smtp    inet    n       -       y       -       -       smtpd -o
content_filter=filter:
<snip>
filter  unix    -       n       n       -       -       pipe
        user=filter argv=/usr/local/spoolerator/enspool.pl -f ${sender}
-- ${recipient}

Firstly, I think you need to add a user 'filter', as the content_filter actually runs as that user (see user=x in lines above)... secondly, same problem I had, you probably need to change the chroot from 'y' to 'n' on smtp as otherwise Postfix doesn't actually recognise that user, or really run the script at all...

Hence:

smtp    inet    n       -       n       -       -       smtpd -o
content_filter=filter:

... and that's pretty much what I have working fine on a box here.
As Leland said , it's those lines in master.cf, and then a bit of changing of the MailScanner configuration.



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Peter Bates, Systems Support Officer, Network Support Team.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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