Possible bug with spam permissions

[Martin Hepworth]

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Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:48 PM Julian Field wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm having a bit of a stupid day. What do you mean by "GID: 6 0 6"
>>and what is wrong? And which chown are you talking about? I don't see
>>your point at all. 
> 
> 
> OK, let me start over:
> 
> Setup: 
> Run as Group = mail
> Quarantine Group = getqmail
> 
> Problem:
> Quarantined virus (etc.) mail is created under 
> 
> /var/spool/Mailscanner/quarantine/date/Message-ID/...
> 
> The group of those directories and the files in them is correct: getqmail. So far so good. But:
> 
> Quarantined spam mail is created under
> 
> /var/spool/Mailscanner/quarantine/date/spam/...
> 
> The directory belongs to the correct group (getqmail) but the spam mails in there belong to group mail. Which clearly is wrong. Now I debugged a bit in Message.pm and found the following bits of code:
> 
>  
<snip>
> Kind regards,
>   JP

Hmm - I need to retract my "it works for me" statement....

I've checked te actual entries and 'cos I'm running with

Quarantine Permissions = 0664    for MailWatch

I didn't notice that indeed the spam and non-spam contents are still 
created with the primary group (Run As Group) not the "Quarantine 
Group". The 'dirty content' (viruses etc) are all fine, just the spam 
and non-spam contents are the wrong group.


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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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