Re: Understanding priviliges when delivering to external commands

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 15:47 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: I've come across instances when mail is still delivered to a command using the user nobody (such as when a mail is generated from the local server rather than delivered from an external source). You forgot to include logs and

Re: Understanding priviliges when delivering to external commands

2012-06-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.06.2012 22:41, schrieb Andrew Beverley: html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/html Hmmm, 2.3.3 is very old, and did not have support for this: Well spotted. I should have said: this is Postfix 2.7.1. That's a hangover from the original installation. make a bugreport to your

Re: Understanding priviliges when delivering to external commands

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 22:53 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 30.06.2012 22:41, schrieb Andrew Beverley: html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/html Hmmm, 2.3.3 is very old, and did not have support for this: Well spotted. I should have said: this is Postfix 2.7.1. That's a

Understanding priviliges when delivering to external commands

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Beverley
I've been using the default_privs setting to control which user Postfix uses to deliver mail to external commands. However, I note from the manual that this setting is only used from an aliases file that is owned by root, or when delivery is done on behalf of root. I've come across instances when

Re: Understanding priviliges when delivering to external commands

2012-06-04 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:38:02AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: I've been using the default_privs setting to control which user Postfix uses to deliver mail to external commands. However, I note from the manual that this setting is only used from an aliases file that is owned by root, or