Mailscanner quarantine permissions for Mailwatc h

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

Hi,

Ok - just applied this patch and it appears to do the trick just fine. I
will need to let it run for a day or so but it hasnt broken anything obvious
and its solved the quarantine files group problem.

I really do not know anythin about perl but from the patch it would appear
that it only deals with the quarantine group ID and not the user id. For
completeness should it not also handle the quarantine user ID? Its not a
problem in my setup as I only need to modify the group info to get mailwatch
working.

As Julian suggested it should also handle the work dir user and group
settings too?

Just a thought....but thanks for all the help!

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Desai, Jason [mailto:jase at SENSIS.COM]
Sent: 05 April 2004 16:34
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner quarantine permissions for Mailwatc h


Try this patch - I sent it to this list recently.  But I don't know if it
will be accepted or not.

Julian, can you take a look and see if this will cause problems for people
running MailScanner as root?  It seems to fix this issue for me running
exim, and I know of another user who runs postfix and it also fixed the
issue for him.  I had the exim user in the apache group, but MailScanner
would not change the group unless I had this patch in there too.

Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Luxford-Watts [mailto:slwatts at WINCKWORTHS.CO.UK]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:27 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [MAILSCANNER] 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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