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Re: Problem with groups when delivering to external command

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 08:18:02 CST


On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:18:17PM +0100, Christian Laursen wrote:

> I have default_privs set to nobody.
>
> I have some mail sent to an external command that needs write access
> to some files that also need to be written by another user.
>
> I then made a group and placed both nobody and the other user in it.
> The other user can write the files without problems, but the external
> program called from postfix can't.
>

Postfix only uses the primary group. This has been discussed before
search the archives. One approach is to configure a dedicated account
that owns the file mailbox and has a .forward file directing all mail
there. Then multiple recipients can forward mail to this account.

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        Viktor.

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