On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:58 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:20:00PM +0100, EASY > steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk wrote: > > > > It looks like some of your smtpd(8) master.cf entries are chrooted and > > > others are not. You should use the unchrooted pathname in both cases, > > > and make a symlink: > > > > > > /home/mail/email/home/mail/email -> / > > > > > > so that the same pathname works in both cases. > > > > > That sounds plausible enough to me. I'm sure I read that symlinks and > > chrooting was carnage - but I'm willing to give anything a go. It's not > > going to bring down the space station :-) > > > > My only confusion is where do I put the symlink. To make matters a > > struggle for me I'm dyslexic so please forgive me a little as I'm > > struggling to follow this: /home/mail/email/home/mail/email - I see the > > same things twice and this locks me up a bit. > > Exactly as written, the symlink is /home/mail/email/home/mail/email and > it points to "/". > > # mkdir -p /home/mail/email/home/mail > # ln -s / /home/mail/email/home/mail/email > > in the chroot jail, this results in /home/mail/email/private/foo being > the same as /private/foo. > Thank you Viktor. After typing it out I finally *got* it. It's about what it looks like resolving from inside the jail. The fix works just fine. I no longer get any issues connecting to it and mail flow works.
I can't thank you enough Sir. Sincerely - my most grateful thanks to you for taking your time to help me with something trivial. Steve
