From: Matt England (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 00:19:31 EDT
>There's no shortage of bad advice on the 'Net.
Well, the reference is a wiki. Wiki's are good at adjusting themselves if
a community chooses to adopt the content.
Unfortunately, a new admin like myself is awash in a stunning array of
somewhat confusing documentation. Why not have the postfix community on
this list band together, agree to collaborate and consolidate, and
continually maintain a set of content on ONE wiki?
And can postfixwiki.org be that wiki? If not...can someone please pick
one...and then start a movement for everyone to leverage each other's work
and possibly reduce some of the support work here on the mail list?
Just a thought. I'm still stunned about how fractured postfix docs (and
related things like postfixadmin and courier-imap) seem to be in soooo many
different places...with duplicate and/or conflicting info.
So why not leverage the power of a wiki in one site?
-Matt
At 5/31/2005 08:54 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:42:25PM -0500, Matt England wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the following reference:
> >
> >
> http://postfixwiki.org/index.php?title=Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Courier-IMAP_and_MySQL#Postfix_Install
> >
> > we see the following recommended commands for the virtual mailboxes
> > directory:
> >
> > % mkdir /usr/local/virtual
> > % chown -R postfix:postfix /usr/local/virtual
> > % chmod -R 771 /usr/local/virtual
>
>This is wrong. The postfix user and group must not be used for any
>files outside the Postfix spool directory. There must be a separate
>user:group (often vmail:vmail) that owns virtual mailboxes/maildirs.
>
> > What does a world-executable (but neither world-readable nor
> > world-writable) setting do or mean in this context? Why is it set this
> > way? Is it a mistake in the docs?
> >
>
>This hides the names of the underlying mailboxes from mortals. The
>value of this questionable. More typical is either mode 700 or mode
>755 with 700 for the actual mailboxes/maildirs.
>
>There's no shortage of bad advice on the 'Net.
>
>--
> Viktor.
>
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