File ownership

[Peter Peters]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:57:21 +0100, you wrote:

>At 17:04 01/10/2003, you wrote:
>>In /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf I set the user and group to be smmsp
>>and restarted MS. Incoming email was put into /var/spool/mqueue.in but the
>>owner was root, with group smmsp. The permissions on the inbound mail files
>>were 600 and mail just stacked up in the directory and was not delivered. I
>>am guessing that this is because MS could not read these files.
>>
>>I changed MS.conf to set user to root and the mail was processed.
>>
>>My question is, what controls how the inbound mail files get created
>
>sendmail.

Yes, you should use the same user and group with MailScanner as you
configured in sendmail.

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