* Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> [111013 01:35]:
> Sorry for the long delay.
>
> On 10Oct2011 21:25, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> | * Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> [10-10-11 20:15]:
> | > Now I have the same complaint about setgid_group, which is
> | > empty in main.cf.
>
> Don't worry so much about main.cf. It is good for the doco and examining
> things (and of course setting them), but postfix has default values that
> will obtain if they are not overridden in main.cf.
>
> The command "postconf" will recite _all_ the postfix settings as they
> are after parsing the main.cf. Very useful.
>
> | > The man says:
> | > setgid_group (postdrop)
> | > The group ownership of set-gid Postfix commands and
> | > of group-writable Postfix directories.
> |
> | My config: setgid_group = maildrop
>
> Mine says "_postdrop". It is the stock MacOSX postfix.
That is what I added.
> Can you post the output of your "postconf" command? We can diff it
> against our own running postfixen.
I decided to restore the OS after flailing around on a learning
curve. I backed up main.cf and will restore it and report back as
soon as the OS is restored.
thanks for the response
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Tim
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