Michael Leone on Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:59:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] postfix error


gabriel rosenkoetter said:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:32:40AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
>> Which you can change to non-chroot, by putting an "n" in the "chroot"
>> column of /etc/postfix/master.cf, and reloading postfix. Much easier
>> to run this way, especially if you get into things like TLS/SMTP AUTH,
>> etc.
>
> ... but far less (theoretically) secure and not the way Wietse
> recommends using his MTA, which is probably the reason for the
> default. :^>

Actually, Weitse recommends not running chroot, unless you know what you
are doing. At least, that's what I recall him saying on the postfix list
more than once.

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