Postfix and procmail

[Mike Garfias]

I have never seen a compelling reason to run chrooted.

And it makes things much easier when you start extending the system.

On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Mike wrote:

> You don't need to change the entire column to 'n'. In fact you  
> probably *shouldn't* do that if you can help it.
>
> Read the documentation about master.cf
> http://www.postfix.org/master.5.html
>
> Then here is local
> http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html
>
> Basically under master.cf you want to make sure this line has 'n'  
> so it can run procmail.
> local     unix  -       n       n       -       -       local
>
> Then you want to use a command like this for procmail. (full path  
> if you feel like it)
> mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
>
> -Mike
>
> Mike Garfias wrote:
>> 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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