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Re: squirrelmail+sendmail



Chavdar Videff said:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 19:31, Raquel Rice wrote:
>>
>> I'm running Woody + sendmail with Dovecot from backports.org.  Just a
>> few days ago I made the switch from qpopper to Dovecot.  Yesterday I
>> installed SquirrelMail and all seems fine.
>> I have Dovecot setup to use IMAP and POP3.
>>
>> The problem I see with your setup ... and I could be totally off-base
>> ... is that your mail is owned by root.  Of course, permission is
>> denied.  My setup may be wrong, but permissions on my user's mail is
>> user.mail . Raquel
>
> This is what bothered me for some time. How can I change this
> behaviour? My setup:
> Sendmail receives messages - passes them to a Kaspersky Antivrus Milter
> to be  examined - then delivered to procmail that invokes spamassassin
> for further  examination.
> Which program do I have to tell to change ownership to mail.
>
> Regards
>
> Chavdar Videff
>

Someone else will have to help you with that.  Sorry.  I set it up some
time ago, but I do remember having to instruct something in the mail chain
not to run as root.  (too many exploits possible)
Raquel






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