Mailscanner quarantine permissions for Mailwatch

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Sam,

I suspect that you need to add postfix to the 'www' group otherwise a
process running as 'postfix' won't be able to chown a file or directory to
that group.

Regards,
Steve.

----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Luxford-Watts [mailto:slwatts at WINCKWORTHS.CO.UK]
Sent: 05 April 2004 16:27
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Mailscanner quarantine permissions for Mailwatch


Hi All,

I think this is more a mailscanner issue than mailwatch hence the posting
here. I am having trouble getting mailscanner to save files in
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine with the correct user:group. In
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf I have set:

Quarantine User = postfix
Quarantine Group = www
Quarantine Permissions = 0660
Incoming Work User = postfix
Incoming Work Group = www
Incoming Work Permissions = 0600
Run As User = postfix
Run As Group = postfix

However when I run MailScanner it always saves files into the quarantine dir
owed by postfix:postfix. I am running Mailscanner V 4.28.6, Suse 8.1 and
Postfix.

In MailScanner.conf it does say that it may not be able to chown to another
user if it is not run as root. Are there any problems running MailScanner as
root? I generally do not like running services as root and if I can chown a
file quite happily using the postfix user why cant Mailscanner?

Am I missing something obvious?

Sam

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