Reading spam dir with PHP?

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Sudo might be the solution, but I would wonder about the implications of
letting the 'apache' user access those files

Mr. Michele Neylon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Max Kipness
> Sent: 02 October 2003 21:37
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Reading spam dir with PHP?
>
> Hello,
>
> Sorry if I'm off topic. This may be more of a PHP or general
> linux question.
>
> I'm trying to write a php page that reads the ../spam dir.
> I'm planning on having the page read each q* file and parse
> the From:, To: and Subject: lines and then have a button for
> each message that basically copies the q* and d* files to the
> sendmail queue.
>
> At this point I'm trying to figure out the best way to get
> access to that directory structure as user Apache. All of the
> dir/files under ./var/spool/MailScanner have rw for root
> only. Is the answer sudo?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
>


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