On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 08:05:20AM -0400, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote:
> berg...@panix.com:
> > Perhaps $HOME could be set in the environment for the pipe service command.
>
> This is a subtle difference between local(8) and pipe(8).
>
> local(8) delivers mail for real users that are required to have a
> home directory. It exportes HOME and changes directory to $HOME
> before delivering mail to a command in their .forward file.
>
> pipe(8) delivers mail for service accounts that are not required
> to have their own home directory, for example:
>
> postfix:*:1002:1002:postfix:/no/home:/no/shell
> milter:*:999:999:milter:/no/home:/no/shell
>
> pipe(8) already has an explicit 'directory=pathname' argument to
> specify the execution directory, but it doees not (yet) have an
> option to specify '{ environment = HOME=/path ...}'.
Wouldn't the below do the trick:
foo unix ... pipe
-o { export_environment = HOME=/some/where }
...
As it should for any Postfix service that forks subprocesses?
--
Viktor.
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