Forcing Queue as Apache

Max Kipness max at KIPNESS.COM
Tue Jun 14 22:49:24 IST 2005


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> A possible compromise that avoids giving any additional permissions to
> apache would be for the script to dump the quarantined mail into a
> temporary holding queue, and then for a root cron job to check the
> contents once a minute and if it finds mail in the holding queue it could
> move it into the mail queue and process that particular message.  You
> could even have a script that checks every few seconds if you wanted to
> minimise the delay.

Yes, I documented this as a thought earlier in my original message.

What are the thoughts on running a 3 minute cronjob to do this. Is this
going to be a noticable extra load on the server?

Right now, I've used the Sudo suggestion and it works. Thanks Dennis. I'm
now wondering what kind of security implications this might have.

Thanks,
Max

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