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Message-ID: <20011015083105.A57734@messi.uku.fi>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:31:05 +0300
From: Jarno Huuskonen <Jarno.Huuskonen@....fi>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Postfix and procmail delivery ?
On Mon, Oct 15, Solar Designer wrote:
> Why is the suggestion to restrict showq to root not acceptable for
> you, then?
Because I understood that the private showq (in master.cf) stops even
root from seeing the queue:
Quoting brett:
"take a look at the private setting for the showq command in
/etc/postfix/master.cf. of course, this will stop everybody (including
root) from seeing the mail queue since the showq daemon will run without
privilege.
- brett"
OK, this time I tested it (set showq to private in master.cf)
(with postfix-20010228pl05 though):
As root:
mailq: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Mail queue is empty
As normal user:
mailq: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
Seems to do the job: Well I'd prefer a different error message ;)
> To me, the problem with it is that it remains possible to flush the
> queue. And restricting qmgr in the same way (via master.cf) breaks
> things. I haven't checked the code to see what can be done, yet.
I browsed the postfix mailinlist archives and there was some
discussion about restricting mailq/flushing the queue. I got the
impression that Wietse might implement the feature if people convince
to him that it's necessary.
-Jarno
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