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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:03:39 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        FreeeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: postfix and /tmp permissions ?
Message-ID:  <26ef6fe70e9e2e6f27e933dd1d584c04@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050415115915.9A3BCC0B7@postfix3-2.free.fr>
References:  <20050415115915.9A3BCC0B7@postfix3-2.free.fr>

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On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When building a new system with NO_SENDMAIL and postfix port, non root 
> users
> cannot send mails. I use the command mail which seems to need /tmp
> permissions (default: 1755). Changing these permissions to 1777 solves 
> the
> problem but I wonder if I am not missing something.
>
> I use i386 / 5.4RC2 / postfix 2.2.2,1 port.
>

NO_SENDMAIL is not necessary; postfix port will gladly ignore it and 
they live together quite nicely.

I'm not sure what breaks when you do this.  /tmp by default has 1777 
permissions, AFAIK.

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