Quarantined Message Ownership

[Drew Marshall]

Hi All

An interesting one. I have just upgraded one of my FreeBSD 8 gateways to perl 5.12.4, which of cause broke the latest stable MS just nicely :-(

So I installed the latest beta and am running MS with the -u switch (Via the rc.conf knob for those who know FreeBSD) and we are back processing mail :-)

However, out came last night's quarantine report and the message details are not available for MailWatch to read, permission denied errors on the files. Strange as nothing has changed in the config and it's worked fine for eons. So I had a look at the MailScanner.conf settings:

Quarantine User = postfix
Quarantine Group = www
Quarantine Permissions = 0660

All good as these produce directories like this:

drwxr-xr-x  33 postfix  www      1024 Sep 23 02:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   6 postfix  postfix   512 May 10 19:37 ..
drwxrwx---   6 postfix  www       512 Sep 10 15:59 20110910
drwxrwx---  28 postfix  www      1024 Sep 11 19:31 20110911
drwxrwx---  10 postfix  www       512 Sep 12 16:12 20110912
drwxrwx---   5 postfix  www       512 Sep 13 16:22 20110913
drwxrwx---   6 postfix  www       512 Sep 14 17:37 20110914
drwxrwx---   5 postfix  www       512 Sep 15 18:57 20110915
drwxrwx---   6 postfix  www       512 Sep 16 17:03 20110916
drwxrwx---   5 postfix  www       512 Sep 17 20:19 20110917
drwxrwx---   4 postfix  www       512 Sep 18 15:57 20110918
drwxrwx---   4 postfix  www       512 Sep 19 12:52 20110919
drwxrwx---   9 postfix  www       512 Sep 20 17:36 20110920
drwxrwx---   3 postfix  www       512 Sep 21 00:16 20110921
drwxrwx---   6 postfix  www       512 Sep 22 17:15 20110922
drwxrwx---   3 postfix  www       512 Sep 23 00:00 20110923

and when you go to yesterday's directory

drwxrwx---   6 postfix  www   512 Sep 22 17:15 .
drwxr-xr-x  33 postfix  www  1024 Sep 23 02:40 ..
drwxrwx---   2 postfix  www   512 Sep 22 14:17 5F0A22A6A46.A7647
drwxrwx---   2 postfix  www   512 Sep 22 09:35 9CCD22A6867.A4D03
drwxrwx---   2 postfix  www   512 Sep 22 17:15 E62192A6A05.A6977
drwxrwx---   2 postfix  www  8192 Sep 22 23:56 spam

all good still but when you go to the spam directory

root at in1.rdc /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20110922/spam # ls -al
total 12854
drwxrwx---  2 postfix  www        8192 Sep 22 23:56 .
drwxrwx---  6 postfix  www         512 Sep 22 17:15 ..
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix    4335 Sep 22 07:18 002552A6A39.A1A34
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix    4242 Sep 22 16:02 00E722A68BC.A085C
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix  630189 Sep 22 11:03 02E512A6A44.AC5AA
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix   14310 Sep 22 12:37 049852A6841.A9C3F
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix    5111 Sep 22 23:03 04E0F2A68A5.A5AAE
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix    4142 Sep 22 09:12 05A032A6A48.AF835
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix    1897 Sep 22 11:18 05B122A689B.A9065
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix   30585 Sep 22 17:18 05C702A6A49.ACE43
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix    4246 Sep 22 16:53 065CF2A6A46.A84F0
-rw-rw----  1 postfix  postfix   14132 Sep 22 07:30 09F282A6915.A6E6F ….

Has anyone else seen this? Is it another taint issue or a by product of me running it in '-u mode'? Perhaps more importantly, any ideas to fix it would be appreciated!

Many thanks

Drew