getting Mailscanner to work with Mailwatch/Postfix

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-17-2008 10:10 AM John Baker spake the following:
>> I did indeed forget that you need to execute bit on for a process to 
>> create a directory. Hey, its been a while since Unix 101. :)
>>
>> But the source of confusion here for me as much as the Mailwatch wiki 
>> ,which I did take the directions from, is that the default 
>> Mailscanner.conf file has Quarantine Permissions = 0600 leading one 
>> to believe that the execute bit is not necessary. This is in the 
>> Mailscanner book as well.
>>
>> What is the function of this line in the file? It seems to be ignored 
>> by   the actual process.
>>
> Remember, Julian originally wrote MailScanner to run with sendmail as 
> root, so it didn't have the permission changes that newer MTA's 
> require to NOT run as root.
>
But I wrote in the non-root support for the other MTA's quite a long 
time ago. It should all work okay.

Jules

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