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Re: bare user names and {dk,sid}-milter

From: Geoff W (postfixx9.supanet.com)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 03:05:58 CDT


On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:59:07 +0200, Mark Martinec wrote:

>http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html :
>
>| To run a Milter application, see the documentation of the filter for
>| options. A typical command looks like this:
>| # /some/where/dk-filter -u userid -p inet:portnumberlocalhost ...
>| Please specify a userid value that isn't used for other applications
>| (not "postfix", not "www", etc.).
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's all well and good (and sensible!) but it complicates matters a whole lot when you use sockets (especially if they are in a directory not owned by 'mail' group)!

Geoff