Hi Victor, Am Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:37:56 -0400 Victor Duchovni <victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> schrieb: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Lars T??uber wrote: > > > The unix socket can't be used by other users than root or postfix. > > Is there a way to configure ownership and/or permissions for the socket? > > No, the parent directory: $queue_directory/private, must be protected > from users other than "postfix" (or "root"). > > > I thought under Linux the filesystem permissions reflect the permissions > > to the unix socket. > > The entire path to the unix socket, including parent directories. > > $ ls -ld /var/spool/postfix/private/ /var/spool/postfix/public/ > drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jun 7 17:59 /var/spool/postfix/private/ > drwx--x--- 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Jun 7 17:59 /var/spool/postfix/public/ > > > Am I doing something wrong? > > To run an smtpd in a less restricted directory, you need to place the > socket in a new location. You can create > > /var/spool/postfix/world > > owner postfix, mode 0755, and in master.cf use: > > ../world/sname unix ... > > instead of > > sname unix ...
using this leads me into this error message: mail.err: [...] postfix/smtpd[29046]: fatal: open lock file pid/unix.../world/sname: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory I couldn't find locking options for smtpd. How can this be solved? Thanks Lars
