[Dovecot] 1.0rc29: LDA chroot problem

Uldis Pakuls neko at it4u.lv
Tue Apr 3 16:57:36 EEST 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> >> **sieve plugin tries to forward mail... and fails when chroot enabled.
>> >> Put the sendmail binary inside chroot and change sendmail_path setting.
>> >> Although I don't know if even that will work. It might want to write
>> >> directly to the mail spool instead of connecting to the SMTP server via
>> >> TCP.
>> >>     
>>     
This means i must set up real chroot environment  for sendmail...  ldd
shows up a lots of dependencies.


> > The other possibility is to disable chrooting with deliver.
>   
While deliver itself uses external binaries too  - is it a good idea to
chroot deliver process at all?


 




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