getting Mailscanner to work with Mailwatch/Postfix

[Gareth]

You need x permissions on a directory in order to be able to read a
directory listing.

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:26, John Baker wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to get Mailscanner set up to work so that postfix and 
> Mailwatch will cooperate and ran into a confusing permission issue.
> 
> You'd think this one would have been addressed here before but I could 
> not find an answer in the archives.
> 
> I seemed as thought the logical way to work around Mailwatch's desire to 
> write to the quarantine as root was to join the postfix user to apache 
> www-data group and give that group ownership of the quarantine.
> 
> So I did that and went with the recommended 0660 permissions. But 
> Mailscanner started throwing "cannot write to directory 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine"
> 
> I switched everything in the configuration back but found that the 
> errors were still being thrown. I had noticed while setting up that the 
> default permission for the que was 755 and had changed it to the fit the 
> 0660 permissions in the mailscanner.con file. I finally added +x and 
> then it seemed to work. So it appears as though despite the numbers in 
> permissions in the mailscanner.conf file it need +x on the owner, and 
> then presumably group if not the same as owner. Why does it need execute 
> permission? Or I'm I missing something else?
> 
> Does anybody have a successful and secure mailscanner/postfix/mailwatch 
> recipe they can share?
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> John Baker
> Network Systems Administrator
> Marlboro College
> Phone: 451-7551 off campus; 551 on campus