On 1/11/25 4:51 PM, John Hall wrote:
So I forgot to ask, Is the ping user the mail user?
No, I created a new nologin user called ping_user, told Postfix to write
that file as that user, made that user the owner of the directory the
file is in.
-kb
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On 1/11/25 4:47 PM, John Hall wrote:
I'm presuming you don't have se-linux or apparmor on?
No, I don't have selinux installed, and it seems apparmor is installed
with this Debian, but I haven't configured it to do anything.
As I said, it is now working, and it was a Postfix configuration I
On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:03:23 -0800
Kent Borg wrote:
> How do I get postfix to append some mail to a file? In the past I
> have put in /etc/aliases something like:
>
> some-string: /path/to/file
I would send it through procmail and let that handle delivery.
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So I forgot to ask, Is the ping user the mail user?
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM John Hall wrote:
> I think we need the messages and logs not the paraphrased messages and
> logs otherwise how is anyone going to see something you did not see?
> I'm presuming you don't have se-linux or appa
I think we need the messages and logs not the paraphrased messages and logs
otherwise how is anyone going to see something you did not see?
I'm presuming you don't have se-linux or apparmor on?
What user is running the mail daemon? Does it 100% spawn processes under
this same user or does it use t
On 1/10/25 2:03 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
How do I get postfix to append some mail to a file?
After a lot of poking about I found out what was needed.
In /etc/postfix/mail.cf I needed to add:
allow_mail_to_files = alias
default_privs = ping_user
I think the first line was already part of the de
How do I get postfix to append some mail to a file? In the past I have
put in /etc/aliases something like:
some-string: /path/to/file
And when I sent an e-mail to "some-str...@borg.org" the mail would get
appended to that file. But in my current server when I try to do I see
in /var/log/ma
