Michael Tokarev via Postfix-users:
> Hi!
> 
> This is to inform the postfix community that I just uploaded
> another postfix release to debian unstable which disables the
> badly famous chroot-by-default of postfix services.  Here's
> the changelog entry:
> 
> postfix (3.10.6-4) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>    * disable chrooting by default finally, after 25 years of everyone 
> suffering.
>      Only limited support for chroot mode will be provided for backwards
>      compatibility.  With this in mind, let's close all chroot-related bugs.
>      Closes: #151692, #1084167, #606007, #631665, #714770, #406348,
>      Closes: #1026394, #257096, #278530, #776685, #893516, #935825,
>      Closes: #678808, #896879, #412413, #802043

Thank you for making this happen. People have more isolation options
today than existed 25 years ago (sandboxes, containers, production-quality
VMs). The diehards who want Postfix's self-chroot feature will
always find ways.

        Wietse
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