Postfix and procmail

Mike Garfias mike at garfias.org
Tue Sep 12 13:25:37 MST 2006


the rest applies.  I just know for a fact that deb/ubuntu ship with  
the chroot jail on by default.

postfix from src does not

On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Nathan England wrote:

>
> I'm running Fedora Core 5
>
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:17, you wrote:
>> Sounds like you're running postfix in a chroot jail.
>> Are you running Deb/Ubuntu by any chance?  If so, the default install
>> as postifx jailed.
>>
>> edit /etc/postfix/master.cf and change the chroot col to 'n'.
>>
>> The other option is to link /usr/bin/procmail to /var/spool/postfix/
>> user/bin/procmail.
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>>> I miss typed. It is
>>>
>>> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:45, John Seth wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure which version of PostFix you're using, but perhaps it
>>>> should read "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail", not
>>>> "mail_command" ?
>>>>
>>>> Check your main.cf, or if you keep backups of the original config
>>>> file,
>>>> check that.
>>>>
>>>> hth,
>>>>
>>>> ~  Tony E
>>>>
>>>> Nathan England wrote:
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been using sendmail with procmail and all has worked  
>>>>> well. I
>>>>> decided to play with postfix a little. I have it working, mostly,
>>>>> except
>>>>> procmail. Watching my logs everytime it processess a message it  
>>>>> says
>>>>> /usr/bin/procmail cannot be found.
>>>>>
>>>>> Postfix is accessing other files in /usr/bin so I know its path is
>>>>> ok, /usr/bin/procmail is the legitimate file so that is ok.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other reason why it wouldn't like procmail?
>>>>>
>>>>> mail_command = /usr/bin/procmail
>>>>>
>>>>> nathan
>>>>
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