I'm trying to write a script to read e-mail over stdin, extract attachments, and distribute them around the file system based on the incoming e-mail address.
Everything works until I actually try writing interesting file system locations. I've established, through logging, that postfix runs my script with UID nobody & GID nobody. The directory I'm attempting to write has permissions 0770. The directory's group is not nobody, but the user nobody is a member of the relevant group. Nevertheless, python throws an IOError when I try to create a file there. The issue seems to be isolated to python. I can run: sudo -u nobody touch DIRECTORY_IN_QUESTION/test and that creates a file. Any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
