I did a

chmod 777 /var/spool/postfix/maildrop

and it seems to fix the problem... altho this is not ideal it works and
thats the main thing for now...

Many thanks for all your help..

Johnno

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Waid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: Postfix


> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:19, Johnno wrote:
>
> >> drwx-wx---    2 postfix  postdrop     1024 Feb 27 01:30 maildrop/
>
> This is could be the source of your problem, if your /usr/sbin/postdrop
> doesn't have the permissions rwxr-sr-x you have a problem. The maildrop
> directory needs to be either world writable or the postdrop program
> needs to be have the setgid bit set. Also, normally maildrop has the
> permissions drwx-wx--T. The T bit signifies that the last modified time
> shouldn't be updated (chmod w+T /var/spool/postfix/maildrop).
>
> http://www.postfix.org/security.html (see Set-uid).
>
> Postfix may have been modified to stop working when the maildrop
> directory is world writable, I can't remember.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard Waid
> Network/Software Engineer
> http://iopen.co.nz
>
>

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