getting Mailscanner to work with Mailwatch/Postfix

[Glenn Steen]

On 18/03/2008, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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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. :)
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>  >> 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.
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>  >> What is the function of this line in the file? It seems to be ignored
>  >> by   the actual process.
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>  > 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.
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> But I wrote in the non-root support for the other MTA's quite a long
>  time ago. It should all work okay.
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Works. Not should work.;-).

(someone is bound to start the MUST and SHOULD definition war all over
again... :-)
Cheers
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