Quarantined Message Ownership

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 14:52:44 IST 2011


Consider use of sticky (group) bit perhaps, on the quarantine dir...?

Cheers!
-- 
-- Glenn
Den 23 sep 2011 08:33 skrev "Drew Marshall" <drew.marshall at trunknetworks.com
>:
> 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
>
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