Bug 60112 - procmail fails to create mail spools when invoked by postfix
Summary: procmail fails to create mail spools when invoked by postfix
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: procmail
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks: 60073
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Reported: 2002-02-20 12:04 UTC by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-02-20 12:05:35 UTC
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Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-02-20 12:04:31 UTC 
Description of Problem: 
When used as delivery agent for postfix, mail spools for new users aren't created. 
Since postfix doesn't run as root, procmail can't create /var/spool/mail/username if 
invoked by postfix rather than sendmail. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
3.22-2 
 
Suggested fix: 
Make procmail setgid and drop privileges right after creating the mail spool and setting 
sane permissions on it.
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-02-20 16:04:00 UTC 
procmail is not getting a suid bit - it's not that trustworthy.
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